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New Sheff Agreement to Increase Integration for Hartford Students By Kathleen Megan, Hartford Courant December 13, 2013 A new one-year agreement in the long-running Sheff vs. O'Neill desegregation case with an estimated price<http://articles.courant.com/2013-12-13/news/hc-sheff-case-1214-20131213_1_hartford-board-public-school-students-hartford-students> tag of $3.5 million calls for the enrollment of an additional 1,350 Hartford students in integrated schools, the expansion of several magnet schools and the creation of four new magnets. The agreement reached Friday after seven months of negotiation also calls for the percentage of Hartford students attending integrated schools to climb to 44 percent by Nov. 15, 2014, up from 42.4 percent now. "There is still much to be done," said Martha Stone, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the case. "We can applaud the advancements of this new agreement, but we must not forget that there still remains a majority of Hartford students relegated to poor performing segregated schools." She said she is particularly pleased about the requirement for increased integration. "It propels the numbers going forward to increase the educational opportunities for Hartford children to be in quality integrated settings," she said. Hartford Superior Court Judge Marshall K. Berger Jr. approved the agreement. Read more here: http://www.kidscounsel.org/new-sheff-agreement-to-increase-intergration-for-hartford-students/