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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Monday that her office, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bossier Parish School Board have jointly asked a federal court to end more than six ...

FERRIDAY, La. (AP) — 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 ...