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Selected resources about: Sheff v. O'Neill:1989 to 2007 Created: July 2005 - Updated: November 2007 |
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Web Sites | The Law | Books | Periodicals and Newspapers | Connecticut Documents The Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit was filed fourteen years ago, when plaintiff Milo Sheff was in the fourth grade. On January 22, 2003, the parties involved agreed on a four-year plan, which the General Assembly approved on February 25th. In 1989, Milo was a student in the Hartford school system, but the issues raised in the case –segregation, racial and ethnic isolation, and the quality of education in urban schools – apply to the entire state. What progress has been made? What is the plan until 2007? Following is a list of print and electronic resources for those interested in Sheff v. O'Neill, equal educational opportunity, and school finance.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describes itself as the "nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." The ACLU, employing educational equity litigation as a strategy for achieving educational reform, is involved in the Sheff v. O'Neill case. The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, located at 32 Grand Street in Hartford, is an ACLU affiliate. Sheff Plaintiffs To Court Before a Connecticut Superior Court, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Connecticut and cooperating attorneys argued that the state of Connecticut must honor its legal obligations to desegregate Greater Hartford’s public. The hearings were videotaped by Connecticut Network. Check the schedule at http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/daily_schedule.asp. Read the plaintiff’s filing: Motion to Enforce Judgment. Read Sheff’s recent op-ed piece on the suit: Segregation Has To End Trinity College (Cities, Suburbs & Schools Research Project) In 2007 Trinity College published a demographic study of racial diversity in Greater Hartford: http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/educ/css/Sheff2007.html PRRAC is assisting the Sheff Movement Coalition in the Project Choice Campaign, a community outreach effort design to give parents and children participating in the interdistrict desegregation programs in the Hartford region a stronger and more consistent voice in the public discourse about the future of these important programs. Improving and Expanding Hartford's Project Choice Program Final Report 2007 Connecticut State Library This is "a checklist of materials in the collection of the Connecticut State Library dealing with integration in Connecticut public schools and related background information, with special reference to the Sheff v. O'Neill litigation." Connecticut State Department of Education Bureau of Choice Programs
The Law This is the text of the 1996 Connecticut Supreme Court decision. This is the text of the press release issued by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal following the 1996 Connecticut Supreme Court decision. Sheff v. O'Neill decision and concurring and dissenting opinions / D'Ann Mazzocca Hartford, CT : Connecticut General Assembly, Office of Legislative Research, [1996]
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Periodical and Newspaper Articles The Hartford Public Library offers electronic access to articles through its iConn database service for patrons of Connecticut libraries. You will need your library card to log into the database.
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The Hartford Business Journal has published numerous articles of Sheff v. O'Neill. Some of them appear in a brief archive on the newspaper's Website. To locate additional articles from 1991 to date, search The Hartford Courant database in iCONN, the Connecticut Digital Library. To locate earlier articles, contact the Library. from journals: "City Schools Fail to Meet Sheff Goals (Sheff v. O'Neill case)." Connecticut Law Tribune (June 18, 2007) "City's Motion to Intervene in Sheff v. O'Neill Granted." Connecticut Law Tribune (January 22, 2007) To choose or not to choose: Equity in Connecticut in the wake of Sheff v. O'Neill." Equity & Excellence in Education 38.1 (February 2005): p3-13 Margolis Emanuel "Every passing day...(equal education opportunity) (Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years of Legal and Social Debate)." Cornell Law Review 90.2 (January 2005): p371-389. Gooch, James K. "Fenced in: why Sheff v. O'Neill can't save Connecticut's inner city students." QLR 22.3 (Winter 2004): p395-453. Race and money, courts and schools: tentative lessons from Connecticut." Indiana Law Review 36.3 (Summer 2003): p523-559.
Connecticut.
State Board of Education.
Enhancing Educational Opportunities and Achievement,
[part 1]. [Hartford]: State of Connecticut, State Board of Education, 1998.
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