News, Updates and Releases

News and Press from Center for Children's Advocacy

  • 2010 Memorandum of Decision (February 22, 2010)

  • Charter Schools: A Debate over Integration and Education
    Robert Frahm, CTMirror.com

    February 24, 2010

  • Still Waiting for Equality in Schools
    Connecticut Post
    May 29, 2009

  • Sheff v O'Neill
    Hartford Courant
    April 27, 2009

  • Sheff Proponents
    Encouraged by Budget Proposals
    Hartford Courant
    April 3, 2009

  • Sheff Progress threatened by Governor's budget
    Hartford Courant Commentary by Martha Stone and Wesley Horton
    March 29, 2009

  • Five-Year Plan For Desegregating Hartford-Area Schools Presented
    Hartford Courant
    January 7, 2009

  • Sheff Needs a Captain
    Hartford Courant
    April 9, 2008

  • New Settlement in Sheff Lawsuit
    Hartford Courant
    April 5, 2008

  • Money Should Follow City Kids To Suburbs
    Hartford Courant
    November 7, 2007

  • State Revising Its Response To Sheff
    Hartford Courant
    June 6, 2007

  • With Every Passing Day
    Hartford Courant
    December 10, 2006

    Sheff: Children who learn in classrooms with white, black, brown and yellow faces are best prepared for the real world where, with luck, they will encounter diversity in the workplace. It is common sense that children who interact with peers from different backgrounds will grow up with fewer prejudices and be more likely to get along in a multicultural society.

  • Panel: Despite Sheff v. O’Neill, school segregation has not eased
    UCONN Advance Online
    November 28, 2006

    Ellen Ash Peters, the retired chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and author of the 1996 Sheff v. O'Neill ruling that racial isolation in Hartford's schools was unconstitutional, let more than 100 people attending a symposium on the ruling in on a little secret: The court purposely left it up to the state legislature to implement change.

  • Sheff Guide
    July, 2006
    A visual guide to Sheff vs. O'Neill progress.

  • A Decade of Half Measures
    Hartford Courant
    July 23, 2006