Regional Desegregation Plans Submitted in Conn.

By Joanna Richardson

School officials and town leaders throughout Connecticut have given the state its first glimpse of how they would reduce racial isolation in their schools.

Eleven regions created under a 1993 school-desegregation law submitted plans to state education officials last month, bringing the state closer to its goal of integrating schools from the bottom up.

Earlier this year, regional panels comprising school board members, teachers, parents, and chief elected officials began devising the voluntary-desegregation plans, as called for in the bill. (See Education...