Post by Logan on Jan 25, 2016 14:01:06 GMT -6
The educator who oversaw the creation of much of the interdistrict magnet school system that has been at the center of the state's $3 billion effort to integrate public education in the Hartford region now says it's time to stop building the schools.
"There are too many magnets now," said Bruce Douglas, who spent 18 years at the helm of the Capitol Region Education Council, opening 16 new magnet schools in the Hartford area as part of the settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation court case.
Douglas, who retired in December, also said the lottery system used to choose which children can attend those schools is "immoral."
"We can't go on with this business of magnet schools forever," Douglas said in a recent interview. "We have as many as we could possibly use right now. Every time you build a magnet school, you take children out of the Hartford public schools. Every time you engage in Open Choice, you're taking children out of the Hartford public schools."
Continued at www.courant.com/education/hc-bruce-douglas-exits-0120-20160125-story.html .
"There are too many magnets now," said Bruce Douglas, who spent 18 years at the helm of the Capitol Region Education Council, opening 16 new magnet schools in the Hartford area as part of the settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation court case.
Douglas, who retired in December, also said the lottery system used to choose which children can attend those schools is "immoral."
"We can't go on with this business of magnet schools forever," Douglas said in a recent interview. "We have as many as we could possibly use right now. Every time you build a magnet school, you take children out of the Hartford public schools. Every time you engage in Open Choice, you're taking children out of the Hartford public schools."
Continued at www.courant.com/education/hc-bruce-douglas-exits-0120-20160125-story.html .