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A federal appeals court has officially ended over 60 years of federal oversight for Concordia Parish, Louisiana’s school district — a major victory for the Trump administration and a symbolic close to a Civil Rights-era legal battle. Once under court mandate to desegregate, the district now operates independently, as the Justice Department argues these old orders represent unwarranted federal interference. Louisiana’s Attorney General backs this, calling the mandates relics of a segregated past. While some parents and civil rights advocates warn these plans still combat racial disparities in discipline, curriculum, and hiring — including efforts to diversify a white charter school opened in 2013 — the ruling marks a definitive end to federal involvement, closing a long chapter in the fight for educational equity.

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