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Hartford
Collaborative for Community Organizing:
http://www.lisc.org/hartford/
LISC
is a national non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting
community-based development that will transform distressed
neighborhoods into thriving communities.
LISC is now the nation's largest non-profit community
development financial intermediary, with programs
like Hartford's in 38 sites across the country and in rural
areas. For more information on LISC National click here.
In Hartford, LISC provides capital and technical expertise to
local non-profit develpers to create affordable housing,
homeownership, commercial and community facilities. By
investing in Hartford's community development corporations (CDCs),
LISC helps to rebuild Hartford neighborhoods.
Sheff
Movement:
http://www.sheffmovement.org/home.html
Given
the existence of significant racial and ethnic isolation
within the State’s public school districts, the Supreme
Court called upon the legislature to implement pro-active
strategies to assure the State’s affirmative constitutional
obligation to provide a substantially equal educational
opportunity.
"Every
passing day denies these children their constitutional right
to a substantially equal educational opportunity. Every
passing day shortchanges these children in their ability to
learn to contribute to their own well-being and to that of
this state and nation. We direct the legislature and the
executive branch to put the search for appropriate remedial
measures at the top of their respective agendas. We are
confident that with energy and good will, appropriate remedies
can be found and implemented in time to make a difference
before another generation of children suffers the consequences
of a segregated public school education."
Sheff v. O’Neill, Connecticut Supreme Court 678 A.2d
1267 (Conn. 1996)
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