Racial Imbalance Plan
To provide a contextual background for families who may be new to Fairfield, or Connecticut, school systems are expected to maintain a minority balance at all schools which closely mirrors the minority balance of the school district as a whole. The threshold for compliance to this law written in 1969 is defined in State Board of Education Regulations as not exceeding 25 percentage points more or less than the comparable proportion for the school district. McKinley’s official minority percentage as reported at the end of the 2015-2016 school year was 47.90%. The school district as a whole was reported to have 20.70% of the student population in K-12 reporting as minorities. Hence, the difference between the school district and McKinley was 27.20% which put us out of compliance by 2.2%. The school district was required to provide an updated Racial Imbalance Plan as a result of this 2.2% difference.
McKinley was first identified as racially imbalanced by the Connecticut Board of Education in April 2007. For a decade, the school district has consistently worked to comply with our submitted and approved plans. While the plans have not resulted in significant shifts in the percentage, the plan has made a difference and our percentage would be higher without our on-going efforts.
Please click on the links below to see documents for further reference:
- 11-2-2022 BoE Presentation to SBE
- 8-30-2022 BoE Approved Racial Balance Plan Amendment
- 7-26-2022 Racial Balance Draft Amendment
- 7-26-2022 Racial Balance Presentation
- Racial Imbalance Plan Update to CSBE Committee, November 3, 2021 (11/3/2021)
- 5-20-2020 Racial Imbalance Plan Update to CSDE
- Approved June 25 2019 Charge to Milone and MacBroom
- Racial Imbalance Plan Update, August 2019
- Racial Imbalance Plan Update, August 2018
- Racial Imbalance Plan with Timeline, April 2017
- Supt note to families and staff Jan 2017
- Amendment-Fairfield BOE Racial Imbalance Report
- Fairfield Racial Imbalance Plan – APPROVED 2016-11-15
- SDE Presentation 2016
- Fairfield_BOE_Presentation_02-16-2016
- Racial imbalance extension 5-12-16
- Memo to CSDE March 2016
- Board Report-Update-Fairfield’s Plan to Correct Racial Imbalance McKinley
- CSDE RacialImb Response July 2015
- CSDE Racial Imbalance May 2014
- Racial Imbalance May 2013 McKinley from CSBE
- CSDE Racial Imbalance Approval Feb 8 2013
- State Letter – Need Specifics 12-9-10
- DT Letter – Addendum 9-20-10
- State Letter – Accept Extension 7-1-10
- 10-3-07 State Letter – Acceptance of Plan
- BOE Letter to Commissioner 8-15-07
- Racial Imbalance Plan August 2007