Memo RE: Sheff Meeting Agenda and CREC Meeting with Cover Sheet

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March 21, 2000

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- Education
Topic
- School Desegregation
Matter
- Sheff v. O'Neill
Case
- Sheff v. O'Neill
U.S. state
- Connecticut
Collection
- Case Files
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- 78a108b2-a146-f011-877a-002248226c06

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Derek Douglas 

Chris Hanson 

Wesley Horton 

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Wilfred Rodriquez 

Elizabeth Horton Sheff 

Martha Stone 

Philip Tegeler 

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March 21, 2000 

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MEMORANDUM 

To: Deborah Archer 

John Brittain 

Sandra Del Valle 

Derek Douglas 

Wes Horton 

Marianne Lado 

Wilfred Rodriguez 

Martha Stone 

Phil Tegeler 

FROM: Dennis Parker oC. 

SUBJECT: 3/22/00 Sheff Meeting 

DATE: March 21, 2000 

  

Here is a proposed meeting agenda for tomorrow’s meeting at the CCLU at 4:00 p.m. 

Although we had planned to have a 6:00 p.m. meeting with the plaintiffs, due to the apparent inability 

of a sufficient number of plaintiffs to attend, I have decided to cancel the plaintiff's meeting. We sent 

notices and made two sets of phone calls to determine who would be able to attend. Only two people 

responded and, of those two, only one was able to attend. 

The agenda items listed below are just my suggestions. Please feel free to bring any additional 

concerns to the meeting tomorrow. 

AGENDA 

1, Report on Community Outreach Efforts (written report from Derek will 

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I look forward to seeing those of you who will be able to attend the meeting. 

follow): 

Report on meeting with CREC (Notes of meeting attached); 

Legislative Update: 

Update on district enrollments: 

Discussion of future litigation and legislative steps: 

New business 

 



MEMORANDUM 

Sheff Team 

FROM: Dennis Parker 

SUBJECT: CREC Meeting 

DATE: March 21, 2000 

  

I spoke with Len after our meeting with CREC to see what he felt were the significant 

points to be drawn from the meeting. He outlined the following points: 

1. That the role that CREC is playing with the establishment of the new 

magnet schools at Trinity and the university of Hartford suggests that there is an existing 

entity with which the state could contract if the state were held responsible for establishing 

new and effective schools. 

2. That the fact that suburban students have expressed a strong interest in 

the new schools suggests that it 1s possible to attract students in from the suburbs if there is 

perceived educational benefit to those students. 

3. The choice program will only be as effective as the marketing strategy 
and the overall integrity of the program’s overall set-up. 

4, That a sliding desegregation scale 1s practical. 

5. Although the Hartford system is not ready now to take on the operation 

of a system of public schools, it may be in time (based upon successful example of New 
Haven Magnet schools). 

6. An efficient transportation program is a critical part of any plan. 

7 That the state purchase and conversion of existing sub-par schools in 

Hartford makes fiscal sense. 

8. That 1t 1s essential that a strategic plan be implemented, starting with 

goals, and developed from the top down rather than working up from the component 
programs. The strategic plans would have to include incentives in terms of financing, 

reporting of test scores and accounting for racial enrollments in order to encourage Hartford 
and suburban participation. 

The meeting also included substantial discussion of the CREC staff’s assessment of 

state efforts thus far as well as a relatively detailed account of CREC’s efforts thus far which 
we can discuss at greater length at our next legal meeting.  



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Subject: 3/22/00 Sheff Meeting/CREC Meeting 

Date: March 21, 2000 

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Sandra Del Valle 

Derek Douglas 

Chris Hanson 

Wesley Horton 

Marianne Engelman Lado 

Wilfred Rodriquez 

Elizabeth Horton Sheff 

Martha Stone 

Philip Tegeler 

From: 

Subject: 

Date: 

Pages: 

Original: Will 

Message: 

99 Hudson Street 
Suite 1600 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC 

New York, NY 10013-2897 
(212) 965-2200 

Company: 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

American Civil Liberties Union 

Horton, Shields & Cormer, P.C 

NY Lawyers for the Public Interest 

Greater Hartford Legal Assistance 

Community Renewal Team 

Center for Children Advocacy 

Connecticut Civil Liberties Union 

Dennis Parker 

3/22/00 Sheff Meeting/CREC Meeting 

March 21, 2000 

3, including this cover sheet. 

WillNot X 

FAX 
Fax #: 

212/226-7592 

212/431-4276 

212/226-7592 

212/549-2651 

860/728-0401 

212/244-4570 

860/541-5050 

860/527-3305 

860/570-5256 

860/728-0287 

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