Letter from Tegeler to Court RE: Motion for Extension of Time and Newsclipping

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April 30, 15892 

Clerk of the Court 
Superior Court 
95 Washington Street 
Hartford, CT 06106 

RE: Sheff v. O'Neill, CVB9-D3509778S 
  

Dear Sir or Madam, 

Please forward the attached Motion to Judge Hammer, who has 
responsibility for the above-captioned case. 

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MILO SHEFF, et al. SUPERIOR COURT 

Plaintiffs 

Vv. 3 JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF 

: HARTFORD/NEW BRITAIN 

WILLIAM A. O'NEILL, et al. : AT HARTFORD 

Defendants APRIL 30, 1992 

  

MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO RESPOND TO 
DEFENDANTS’ FIRST REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION 
  

  

The Plaintiffs move for an extension of time of twenty-one (21) 

days, to respond to Defendants’ First Request for Production, served 

on March 31, 1992. The reason for this Motion is the need for further 

legal and technical research regarding an appropriate response to 

defendants’ request seeking all data, including computer data, 

gathered by an expert witness retained by plaintiffs. 

Defendants have been contacted and have no objection to the 

granting of this Motion. This is the first Motion for Extension of 

Time regarding Defendants’ First Request for Production. 

  

 



      
For good cause shown, 

GRANTED/DENIED. 

DATE: 

Respectfully Submitted, 

Wp See’. 
Philip D. Tegeler 
Martha Stone 

Connecticut Civil Liberties 
Union Foundation 

32 Grand Street 
Hartford, CT 06106 

  

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

ORDER 

the foregoing Motion is hereby ordered 

  

Hammer, J. 

 



      

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 
  

This is to certify that one copy of the foregoing has been mailed 

postage prepaid to John R. Whelan, Assistant Attorney General, 

77 

MacKenzie Hall, 110 Sherman Street, Hartford, CT 06105 this 27 day 

of April, 1992 

  

HY J ZAK 
Philip D. Tegeler 

  

  

 



  

WEDNESDAY 
APRIL 29, 1992 

  

Regional draw may be key to city school plans 
By RICK GREEN 
Courant Staff Writer 

Faced with the costly prospect of adding 
at least eight schools during the next 10 
years, the Hartford Board of Education may 
try to entice suburban students into the city 
with magnet, or special-program, schools. 

Building such schools could increase the 
state’s contribution for construction costs,. 

city and state officials said. ; 
Now, the state reimburses about 70 per- 

cent of the cost of a new school built in 
Hartford. The city is considering as much as 
$300 million in expansion and construction 

projects, and may need additional help in 
paying for them — or face shelving some of 
the plans. 

New schools that promote integration and 
a regional approach to education could be 
part of the answer. 

“We need to look at it as a means of 
regionalizing. It would serve us and it would 
serve the towns surrounding us,” said school. 
board President Carmen Rodriguez. If new 
schools serve Hartford and suburban stu- 
dents, she said, the state might pay more of 
the costs. 

Because school crowding in the city is so 
bad that children are literally spilling out of 

the classroom onto the playground, board of 
education members said the trade-off with 
the suburbs would have to be equal — for 
each suburban student who comes to the 
city, a city student would go to a suburban 
school. 

The specialized schools being discussed 
include high schools that would emphasize 
government and civics, commerce and in- 
dustry or science and technology. Each 
school would offer the basic core curriculum 
but include opportunities for special study in 
selected areas. 

“I think it’s a great idea,” said board 
member Candida Flores-Sepulveda. “I think 

it will address a number of issues that we 
have been working on for a long time.” 

A board committee is preparing a pro- 
posal that the city build or acquire at least 
eight — and possibly 10 — new schools as the 
school system grows from 26,000 to a pro- 
jected 29,000 students during the next 10 
years. The proposal includes three small, 
specialized high schools; four middle 
schools; and one to three elementary 
schools. Some of the schools would be creat- 
ed by converting existing schools. 

Because the 31 existing schools need reno- 
vations and additions, the total price tag for 
the expansion could be as much as $300 

Regional draw may be key 
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at that . .. as long as there were an 
equal number of slots [for Hartford 
students] being made available in 
the suburban communities,” board 
member Edward Carroll said of the 
regional school idea. Carroll is chair- 
man of the committee studying the 
school system’s space needs. 

Elizabeth Schmitt, a spokeswom-- 
an for the state Department of Edu- 
cation, said the state has paid the full 
construction costs of some so-called 
magnet schools in recent years. That 
is because they meet policy goals of 
promoting racial integration and ef- 
ficiency. 

Most students in Hartford schools 
are members of minority groups, 
while many nearby suburban towns 
have largely white student popula- 
tions. City schools are the subject of 
a lawsuit pending in Superior Court 
in Hartford that says the segregated 
schools are inferior and violate con- 

stitutional guarantees of an equal 
education. 

In some suburban communities, 
education leaders said they were in- 
terested in the Hartford idea. 

West Hartford school board Chair- 
man John Lemega called it “a tre- 
mendous idea.” 

“The notion sounds interesting. 
It’s got to be fleshed out,” said Le- 
mega. He also said there are other 
magnet school proposals, including 
one at the University of Hartford. 
“We are going to need radical alter- 
natives in education,” he said. 

Wethersfield Board of Education 
Chairwoman Irene G. Roushon was 
less enthusiastic, but said the key is 
building a school with a good reputa- 
tion. “If the parents don’t feel that 
the education in that specific area is 
superior, they are not going to buy 
it,” she said. : 
  

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million. The school board would like the 
state to pay as much of the cost as possible so 
city voters would be more inclined to ap- 
prove the plans. 

Board members are trying to determine 
how many new schools are needed. More 
discussion of what kinds of programs the 
schools will offer will come after the board 
submits its plans to the city council. City 
voters could consider a school-building pro- 
posal Election Day this year. 

“I think we would be very open to looking 

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