By Matthew Kauffman, (Hartford Courant)
In 2015, National Public Radio pointed its microphones at Connecticut, reporting on the unlikely success of Hartford’s desegregation efforts. Ira Glass, host of “This American Life,” described how other cities had given up on integration or seen their efforts fail. “And then, even more remarkable, in at least one city in Connecticut, it happened,” Glass said in his trademark public-radio voice. “In Hartford, they went from 11 percent of their students in integrated schools, to nearly half.”
