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Editorial: Hartford's Slow, Steady Progress In School Integration Hartford Courant, December 20, 2013 The latest agreement between plaintiffs and the state in the Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation lawsuit will inch Hartford public schools along ever so slightly toward the goal of educating all students in an integrated classroom setting. For that small amount of progress and for other reasons, the one-year pact is welcome. Seventeen years ago, the state Supreme Court concluded in its ruling on the Sheff case that "the existence of extreme racial and ethnic isolation in the public school system deprives schoolchildren of a substantially equal educational opportunity." Read more here: http://www.kidscounsel.org/editorial-hartfords-slow-steady-progress-in-school-integration/