Puzzling Racial Gap
by Robert A. Frahm
A generation ago, Bloomfield was heralded as the all-American community. Blacks and whites lived side by side, chasing the American dream of middle-class stability without regard to skin color. Now, Bloomfield operates one of the most racially segregated school systems in the state. And when results were released recently on the state's annual 10th-grade achievement test, this quiet, middle-class suburb found itself confronting a question more often associated with the nation's poorest urban school systems.
Hartford Courant, 10/8/2007