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DOJ Ends ‘Onerous’ Racial Mandates on School Districts

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division dismissed more than 50 desegregation cases which sat on court dockets for more than half a century.

“In this administration, we are ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts because the effort does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today,” said Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon. “In some cases, school districts have been under federal control for more than 60 years.”

“Now these local school districts can redirect taxpayer dollars back to benefitting students,” she added, “instead of funding onerous and outdated consent decrees.”

As of the start of the Trump administration, about 150 school districts were still under desegregation court orders, most of which were in the South.

Court orders have been dismissed in Tuscumbia City, Alabama; St. Clair County, Alabama; Tarrant City, Alabama;........

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