supreme court ruling to desegregate schools. >> purpose of the magnate schools is to provide an integrated setting that brings suburban students into hartford classrooms, the state is, in fact, building the building for free and providing state colors to subsidize the operation of these schools in order to meet the state supreme court mandate of free and public education in a diverse setting. >> reporter: 96% of school kids in hartford are a minority, in a community where people are desperate for good education. >> the majority of the students of color who don't have access to quality schools, they lose. >> reporter: the connecticut board of education warned capital prep it could lose its funding. >> it said, we're going to shut you down if you don't get enough white people. >> reporter: the principal hired a recruiter to target suburban white communities in places like avon, where the local public schools outperform others across