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Trump Admin Ends Louisiana Desegregation Order, Opens Probe into Chicago Program for Black Students

HeadlineMay 05, 2025

In more education news, the Justice Department last week terminated a half-century-old school desegregation order in Louisiana. The Plaquemines Parish School Board came under a federal consent decree in 1966 for refusing to comply with the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation in schools. Trump’s DOJ said it is “correcting wrongs from the past.”

In related news, the Education Department has launched an investigation into a Chicago school program designed to help Black students. The federal agency said it could withhold federal funding from the district over the Black Student Success Plan, alleging that it discriminates against non-Black students.

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