US, Louisiana schools reach pact in 1965 desegregation case
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February 1, 2017
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Renewed efforts to desegregate three nearly all-black elementary schools and recruit a diverse faculty and staff are part of a new agreement between a south Louisiana school district and the Justice Department in a federal court case that dates back to 1965.
If all of the agreement's requirements are met, federal supervision of the schools in St. James Parish could end in three years.
The 27-page agreement was approved by a federal judge Monday and announced in a Justice Department news release Tuesday. It's one of numerous federal desegregation cases in the South dating bac...
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