Work-in-progress: please do not publicize

by Cities Suburbs and Schools seminar students at Trinity College with Professor Jack Dougherty, last updated March 10, 2022

See current version at https://datavizforall.org/sheff-2022

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this voluntary 25-minute Zoom interview to help us understand how readers like you interpret our work. We will show you several charts about the goals and current status of the Sheff 2022 school integration settlement, and ask you to describe what you see and tell us what it makes you think.

We will only show you headlines and charts – not the explanatory text we are writing – because we know most readers will primarily focus on the pictures.

We ask your permission to record our conversation to help Trinity students learn more about conducting research interviews. We will not identify you in our writing. Although we plan to publish the charts and make them freely available, we do not plan to publish any of this interview material.

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Sheff Goal 1: Increase Hartford Black & Latino Student Enrollments in Integrated Schools





Sheff Goal 2: Create Socioeconomically Balanced Magnet Schools





Sheff Goal 3: Meet Demand of Hartford Black & Latino Students Who Apply for Integrated Schools





Sheff Goal 4: Encourage Suburban Districts to Expand Open Choice Enrollments





Sheff Goal 5: Improve Quality Integrated Education by Reducing Disparities Inside Schools





Note: The “public data” sections of the Sheff 2020 settlement and the Sheff 2022 settlement require CSDE to share disaggregated student data by town of residence for various outcomes (test performance and growth, attendance, graduation, suspensions and expulsions, etc.). Disaggregated data would enable better comparisons of Hartford-resident versus suburban-resident outcomes in magnet schools and Open Choice schools. But CSDE has not yet made this data public.