Hartford Students Face More Diversity
Hartford schools and 22 suburbs will cater for more diverse students from their neighborhoods. The possible settlement of the new students is managed by a five-year-plan which aims to bring back at least 41 percent of Hartford’s minority students to its schools.
The proposal for this plan was submitted to the Joint Education Committee headed by Andrew Fleischmann, a state representative from West Hartford, who will hold a public hearing on the proposal. The Assembly of the Committee will have to decide whether it will vote to accept or reject the plan.
The New Times reports that the plan requires the State to provide necessary resources for all minority students.
Without putting a price tag on the plan, the settlement requires the state to “provide sufficient resources” and compels it to reduce the time children spend on buses going from one municipality to another. Previous efforts at desegregation have faltered because families were unwilling to send children to schools in other districts voluntarily when it meant children as young as 7 were traveling three hours a day.
According to Assata Speaks, “the program could also pass muster if it satisfied at least 80 percent of the demand among minority students seeking placements in such schools.”
Without putting a price tag on the plan, the settlement requires the state to “provide sufficient resources” and compels it to reduce the time children spend on buses going from one municipality to another. Previous efforts at desegregation have faltered because families were unwilling to send children to schools in other districts voluntarily when it meant children as young as 7 were traveling three hours a day.
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