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Project Choice Campaign
An Initiative of the Sheff Movement Coalition
Under Project Choice, Hartford students attend school in participating suburban districts. Any Hartford student may apply. For information, please call the Joint Magnet Office, 385 Washington Street, Hartford CT, (860) 757-6188, or on the web at www.magneteducation.org.The Project Choice Campaign of the Sheff Movement works to increase support for proven, successful voluntary integration efforts in greater Hartford.
New Reports
The Sheff Movement Project Choice Campaign has recently released two important new reports on the future potential of Hartford’s Project Choice program:
Read the Executive Summary (10 pages)
The Sheff Movement coalition is a community based network of parents, educators, activists, and organizations committed to promoting the expansion and protection of educational programs designed to fulfill the promise of Sheff v. O’Neill, Hartford’s 18-year-old lawsuit seeking quality, integrated education for all Hartford schoolchildren, and improved educational choices for all students in the region. Please sign up for our mailing list
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council is providing technical assistance and support to the coalition’s Project Choice Campaign.
Regional Magnet Schools
Connecticut parents can choose from a range of public K-12 magnet schools.These inter-district magnet schools in Greater Hartford are part of the public education system, but generally offer a specialized theme or focus and are designed to meet Sheff v O’Neill integration goals. Most are built with state support and admission is usually by lottery.
Why Choose a Magnet School?
Magnet schools offer an academic focus or theme that may suit your child’s interests and talents. Magnet schools also offer improved academic achievement; diverse student body; higher attendance rates, graduation rates, and lower drop-out rates; and greater parental involvement.Benefits of Integration
Studies increasingly show that students integrated settings gain a variety of advantages over students attending segregated schools, including:- better critical thinking skills
- better analytical ability
- better ability to form cross-racial friendships,
- improved academic outcomes and graduation rates.
The regional magnet schools offer a far more racially and economically integrated student body than most area public schools. Project Choice increases diversity in area towns and for participating Hartford students.
An integrated school, under Sheff standards, is a school where the percentage of "minority" students (Black, Latino, Asian) does not exceed 30% of the regional average minority enrollment. Under this definition, schools meeting the integration standard currently have at least 25% white enrollment or more. Most of the magnet schools are also integrated economically as well.
click here for List of Magnet Schools
Information in this list collected from school officials and public sources by the Sheff Movement. Please contact us at (860) 509-3733 with comments or changes.
Parents may get more information and apply to any school through the CREC/Hartford Public Schools Joint Magnet office:
385 Washington St. Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 757-6188