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Louisiana school board and federal government end 61 years of segregation monitoring
The settlement ends decades of monitoring after officials said the old decree was expensive, ineffective and no longer needed.
- On Thursday, Bossier Parish Schools and the Justice Department agreed to end 61 years of federal desegregation oversight, concluding the long-standing legal monitoring near Shreveport on the first day of classes.
- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced the settlement, arguing these decades-old cases are 'expensive, ineffective' and infringe upon local control, following her work with the Concordia Parish School Board last month.
- Because the parents who filed the original 1964 lawsuit are deceased and their children could not be contacted, the oversight order proceeded with dismissal.
- Bossier Schools Superintendent Jason Rowland said the dismissal grants 'freedom to make our own decisions,' while the district collaborated with the Justice Department for decades on infrastructure changes.
- The Justice Department reversed course under Trump, with officials framing segregation orders as 'federal intrusion,' while Louisiana officials describe these mandates as relics from when Black students were forbidden from schools.
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Louisiana school board and federal government end 61 years of segregation monitoring
A Louisiana school board and the federal government have agreed to end more than 60 years of oversight meant to end segregation.
·New York, United States
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