{"id":10760,"date":"2013-11-11T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2013-11-11T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:22:47","slug":"brown-v-board-of-education-for-a-new-generation-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/11\/11\/brown-v-board-of-education-for-a-new-generation-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Knopp discusses Hartford’s progress since 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One Nation Indivisible lunch panel and discussion at the Hartford Public Library. SOURCE: Elaina Rollins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past Friday, November 8, One Nation Indivisible, a two-day education integration conference, hosted a lunch and panel discussion at the Hartford Public Library entitled \u201cBrown v. Board of Education for a New Generation.\u201d Prominent education activists, lawyers, and professors from the New England area came together to discuss their involvement with Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/em> (1989), Hartford\u2019s major education inequality lawsuit, as well as the city\u2019s continuing efforts to diversify its public schools.<\/p>\n

Alex Knopp, Clinical Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, Plaintiff\u2019s Representative for Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/em>, and a panel contributor, has worked on the Sheff<\/em> case for only one and a half years. This length of involvement makes Knopp less experienced than many other activists, but his knowledge about educational law makes him a valuable asset to the Sheff<\/em> case. At the panel discussion, Knopp explained that as a Plaintiff\u2019s Representative, he focuses on the implementation of Sheff<\/em>\u2019s mandates.<\/p>\n

Knopp spoke about how the Hartford area has changed over the past 24 years since Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/em> was initially filed in court. One major difference is Hartford\u2019s connections with its surrounding suburbs. Today, current education innovations in the city rely on regional cooperative structures that were not in place before Sheff<\/em>. Also, Knopp argued that public financing has majorly changed since 1989. The current debate over whether suburban schools should aid less prosperous districts is the result of 24 years of Sheff<\/em> activism.<\/p>\n

The \u201cparadigm of school reform\u201d has also changed since 1989, according to Knopp. It is now standard for legislators and education activists to consider the relationship between the Governor of Hartford\u2019s reform agenda and Sheff<\/em>\u2019s reform agenda. Knopp explained that, fortunately, these agendas often overlap. Along these same lines, the city of Hartford and the State Department of Education are now much more involved in the Sheff<\/em> case than it was 24 years ago. Knopp stated that the State Department of Education is especially open to new school integration initiatives.<\/p>\n

Finally, Knopp discussed the more recent educational inequality case Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) v. Rell<\/em> (2005) and how its existence may help the current Sheff<\/em> initiative. Knopp ended his comments by affirming his support for diverse and affordable housing options, which he believes are linked to diverse and successful schools. He stated that Connecticut\u2019s guarantee to education \u201cis a right, and should be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This past Friday, November 8, One Nation Indivisible, a two-day education integration conference, hosted a lunch and panel discussion at the Hartford Public Library entitled \u201cBrown v. Board of Education for a New Generation.\u201d Prominent education activists, lawyers, and professors from the New England area came together to discuss their involvement with Sheff v. O\u2019Neill … Continue reading Alex Knopp discusses Hartford’s progress since 1989<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10764,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}