Resources

• 2008 Settlement Agreement
  
• Research Reports
  
• Order our DVDs
  
• Sheff Movement news items from 2007-08
  
• Recent Events
  
• Materials From the Recent Sheff v. O'Neill Hearing
  
• Other Resources
  

2008 Settlement Agreement

• 2008 Settlement Agreement
• Quick Summary of the 2008 Settlement Agreement
• The First Ten Years of Sheff v. O'Neill Implementation (PowerPoint from the ACLU)

Research Reports

• The 2008 Sheff Movement Survey Study - public attitudes toward voluntary school integration (72 pages)

Read the press release

See the powerpoint summary

• Improving and Expanding Hartford’s Project Choice Program (85 pages)

  Read the Executive Summary (10 pages)

• Boston’s METCO Program: Lessons for the Hartford Area (18 pages)

• Brief of 553 Social Scientists in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, et al

• Voluntary K-12 School Integration Manual (From NAACP Legal Defense Fund)

Order our DVDs

• “40 Years of Project Concern and Project Choice” (30 minute dvd) – available for $5 (or free if you plan to show it to a group of friends, students or colleagues) – contact ptegeler@prrac.org
• “How we did it in Simsbury” (15 minute dvd) – guide for planning a Project Choice host parent program in suburban towns (NOT YET AVAILABLE – PLEASE CHECK BACK IN MAY 2008)

Sheff Movement news items from 2007-08

• Stan Simpson on Pathways to Technology Magnet May 10, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• New East-of-the-River Magnet Marine Sciences High School May 9, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• Sheff Plan Passes Legislative Committee Test April 23, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• Hartford Courant Editorial in support of new settlement April 21, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• Sheff Parties Ask Legislators To Approve Settlement April 16, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• Sheff Ship Needs A Captain April 9, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• How I Think About Sheff v. O'Neill April 8, 2008, Colin McEnroe’s “To Wit” Blog at blogs.courant.com

• Recognize Sheff Progress March 22, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• School Desegregation Agreement Withdrawn March 5, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• City Needs Diversity In Magnets March 5, 2008, The Hartford Courant

• Official Seeks More Power In Sheff Case, The Hartford Courant, November 14, 2007

• Open Dialogue On Sheff, The Hartford Courant, November 10, 2007

• Money Should Follow City Kids To Suburbs, The Hartford Courant, November 9, 2007

• Colin McEnroe with Project Choice Campaign coordinator Phil Tegeler on WTIC, 11-8-07

• Elizabeth Horton Sheff and state representative Andrew Fleischmann on WNPR’s “Where We Live,” 11-2-07

• Segregation Has To End

Recent Events

• Project Concern / Project Choice All Class Reunion July 26, 2008
  For graduates and Project Concern paraprofessionals, bus drivers, and staff members. 6-11pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resorts located at 50 Morgan Street, Hartford.
  For graduates and Project Concern paraprofessionals, bus drivers, and staff members.
• Sheff Movement Annual Meeting
  At the Breakthrough Magnet School
  Saturday, April 26, 2008, 9:30 – 12:00
• Education Committee
  Legislative Hearing on the new settlement agreement
  Legislative Office Building, Room 2c
  Tuesday, April 15, 2008
• November 6-9, 2007
  Sheff v. O’Neill compliance hearing
  Superior Court, Hartford
  This is the hearing that was made necessary when the legislature failed to approve the recent settlement approved by the Sheff plaintiffs and the State Board of Education and Governor. The judge will consider what should be done in the next phase of the implementation of Sheff v. O’Neill remedies. We are encouraging parents and supporters of the Sheff voluntary integration programs to come to court and learn more about the next phase of the case. At the Hartford Superior Court, 95 Washington Street.

• November 14th, 2007
  DVD screening at the Hartford Public Library
  5:30 – 7:30 pm
  “Forty years of Project Concern and Project Choice”: A screening of the new 30-minute video documentary about Hartford's city-to-suburb school integration program. Featuring interviews with alumni and founders of the Project Concern program and a discussion about the future of the program. Welcoming reception at 5:30; film at 6:00 followed by discussion.

Materials From the Recent Sheff v. O'Neill Hearing

• “Missing the Goal: A Visual Guide to Sheff v. O’Neill School Desegregation, June 2007” by Jack Dougherty, Jesse Wanzer, Christina Ramsay (Trinity College)

• “Proposed Phase II Plan” by plaintiffs’ expert Len Stevens

Other Resources

• The 2003-2007 interim settlement agreement (now expired)

• Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Seattle & Louisville

• Achieving the Goals of Sheff