A federal appeals court on Tuesday ended more than 60 years of federal oversight of a Louisiana school system that had been ...

Federal courts resolve disputes,” Judge Don Willett wrote for the appellate panel's 2-1 majority. “They do not require ...

Now that the state legislature passed a law for an oversight board, it's time to revisit what led to the segregated ...

As we recognize the 69th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, I find myself reflecting on the continuing inequity and lack of opportunity for a large ...

A US federal court on Tuesday closed a school desegregation lawsuit originally filed in 1965, effectively ending a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 19, 1976, federal Judge John Reynolds ordered Milwaukee Public Schools to desegregate, in response to a lawsuit filed by ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a "historical wrong" and suggested that others dating ...

FERRIDAY, La. — Even at a glance, the differences are obvious. The walls of Ferriday High School are old and worn, surrounded by barbed wire. Just a few miles away, Vidalia High School is clean and ...

TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge last week approved ending a Hendry County school-desegregation lawsuit that started in 1970, after the U.S. Department of Justice and the district agreed that “vestiges ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge in Louisiana. After the judge refused to close the books on a ...

Several years after Education Week was launched in the early 1980s, the 30 th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education presented our Opinion section with the first occasion for what has become a ...

"Federal courts resolve disputes," the court opined. "They do not require parties to continue having them." The post 'It is ...