Desegregation Panel Offers 15 Proposals to Conn. Legislators

A state task force last week passed the baton to lawmakers as Connecticut officials work toward a solution to the racial and ethnic segregation that persists around the state's urban districts.

After more than four months of debate, the appointed Educational Improvement Panel handed 15 recommendations to lawmakers, meeting the deadline set by Gov. John G. Rowland after an order last summer from the state supreme court.

Ruling in the case known as Sheff v. O'Neill , the high court declared the segregation around Hartford's schools unconstitutional and ordered the legislature...