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Education Equity After Sheff | What is the Way Forward?
- Community Events
Education Equity After Sheff | What is the Way Forward?
Please join us for an important virtual community conversation:
Education Equity After Sheff | What is the Way Forward? Wednesday, December 8th at 4 - 5 P.M. on Zoom Webinar
Two decades after the landmark court decision on the Sheff versus O’Neill case, how do we achieve education equity in Connecticut?
More than half of Hartford’s students still attend low-performing schools. Our November CUTLINE episode, "Striving Toward Education Equity", explored the complex issues around housing, race and inequity, educational funding, and the achievement and opportunity gaps facing kids and families in Hartford and many other Connecticut communities.
How did we get to this point? How we can strive toward education equity in Connecticut? Bring YOUR questions! We'll see clips from the episode, and have an engaging community conversation with these education experts.
Moderator: Vanessa de la Torre, Executive Editor of the New England News Collaborative, a regional collaboration of nine public media stations. Prior to joining Connecticut Public, de la Torre was an award-winning Hartford Courant reporter who covered Hartford public schools and the aftermath of the Sheff v. O’Neill case. She is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Journalism.
Panelists: Robert Cotto, Jr., former member of the Hartford board of education and Director, HMTCA-Trinity College Partnership. He is also a PhD candidate in education policy at UConn.
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, investigative reporter with Connecticut Public’s Accountability Project. She previously covered education, housing, and juvenile justice for The Connecticut Mirror. She has won national awards for investigative reporting for her coverage of segregation and educational inequities.
Henley Solomon, an Open Choice student who graduated in 2015 from Conard High School in West Hartford. Now a Long Term Substitute Teacher in that school system, he has both personal and professional experience to share about the challenges Open Choice students face, and what it takes to persevere.