Education reform bill misses key opportunities highlighted by Sheff case - Courant.com: "Other troubled systems would clearly benefit from the solutions being applied in Hartford. One or two "turnaround schools" will not do anything for students in Bridgeport, for example, where the words "equal educational opportunity" ring hollow. This was the opportune time for the legislature to apply the lessons learned from Sheff statewide as part of achievement gap remedial measures.
Instead, 1,000 segregated preschool slots were created without an overall plan to ensure that the gains made by our youngest students wouldn't be lost when they entered kindergarten in their poor-performing neighborhood schools. Why was there no discussion about attaching these pre-K opportunities to interdistrict options?
The same is true for charter schools. Rather than creating a parallel, segregated system, the legislature had a chance to embrace charter schools as part of an interdistrict remedy by changing statutes to allow these schools to receive the same construction and transportation reimbursements as the magnets."
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