Read our new Story from the Field

It has been 17 years since Connecticut’s highest court ordered state lawmakers to fashion a remedy to reduce segregation in public schools in and around the capital city, Hartford. Since then, an unprecedented mix of schools and programs have emerged, gained in popularity and demonstrated promising academic results. “There’s no way to say now that quality, integrated education can’t be achieved. We are achieving it,” says Elizabeth Horton Sheff, the lead plaintiff in the civil rights lawsuit, Sheff v. O’Neill. Read our new Story from the Field, by Susan Eaton.