The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

A group of African American students, left, enter the Boothville-Venice School in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana on Sept. 12, 1966 as a group of white mothers wait at the entrance of the school. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, file) By Collin Binkley, AP Education Writer ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana last week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and s…

Plaquemines Parish: Trump’s Justice Department is Making Schools Segregated Again

The Department of Justice announced last week that it dismissed a “half century old Louisiana consent decree” providing for the desegregation of public schools in Plaquemines Parish, located at the southeastern tip of the state. In its press release, the DOJ says that a district court “found the schools had been properly integrated” in 1975, but “the case was never removed from the Court system.” And in the Trump administration’s view, it “right…