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| Subject: Connecticut Magnet Schools Illegally Recruit White Students To Fill Racial Quotas Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:44 pm | |
| A Connecticut public-school district is being sued by a group of black and Hispanic parents over discrimination in favor of white applicants.
A state audit of Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut found the district had been illegally recruiting white students to fulfill state-imposed race quotas.
The district, which is 81 percent black and Hispanic, has been accused of allowing white students to skip ahead of black students in the highly competitive Hartford magnet school lottery. According to legal briefs, the district rigged the lottery due to pressure from lawmakers for Hartford Public Schools to “integrate” its mostly minority school population.
In 1989, a Connecticut state court ruling called Sheff v. O’Neill mandated that public-school officials correct educational “inequities” determined by race. In response to this order, the state passed a law requiring that every public magnet school—schools designed to facilitate experimental curricula—admit students partially according to race, including a minimum 25 percent white population per magnet school. The goals were racial “integration” and “diversity.”
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/22/connecticut-magnet-schools-illegally-recruit-white-students-fill-racial-quotas/?fbclid=IwAR1ybt-k4DqZD4zBlWqlM6R8p5-Df5_05lIS7LODmXDDNUmJ2ZzVS_kFSuw |
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