Hartford Open Choice Students' School Engagement: The Role of Individual Characteristics and School Attributes

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Hartford Open Choice Students’ School Engagement: The Role of Individual Characteristics and School Attributes\nLoida Reyes, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Connecticut, 2015\nAbstract\nThe Supreme Court declared unconstitutional state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. Despite this major achievement, more than 60 years ago, residents in Hartford, Connecticut continue their fight to eliminate educational inequalities. In Sheff vs. O’Neill (1989) plaintiffs challenged the economic and racial segregation of public schools in Hartford and the lack of adequate resources in the city schools, which denied its students an equal education. Hartford public schools, where currently more than 90 percent of students are black or Latino, remain as segregated today, as they were when the Sheff lawsuit was filed in 1989. The central purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of Open Choice high school students’ leve

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