desegregation

The desegreation lawsuit has gone on for decades.

Black Alliance for Educational Options says they think the Justice Department should drop the issue.

MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — The Avoyelles Parish school district's quest to get out from under a decades-old desegregation order has been delayed. The Town-Talk reports (http://townta.lk/ULeUub) that U.S. District Judge Dee Drell has refused to declare that Avoyelles school district facilities are unitary — which would mean they are no longer deemed segregated...

AMITE, La. (AP) — The Tangipahoa Parish School Board has effectively killed a proposed timetable for considering revisions to the district's desegregation plan by voting to delay the discussion until the next meeting. The Advocate reports board member Brett Duncan has questioned the need to build $54...

School board agrees to appeal the courts ruling that the case is still open.

The case pulled in support from the Justice Department and the NAACP.

AMITE, La. (AP) — The Tangipahoa Parish School Board has voted to give attorney Bob Hammonds an expanded role in dealing with its decades-old desegregation litigation as well as how new state laws affect operations of Louisiana school systems...

A desegregation case in Evangeline Parish is wrapping up, and now the deseg attorney wants the parish to pay up. Opelousas attorney Marion Overton White is asking for $1.6-million.

A federal judge has approved a settlement for an attorney in the desegregation case. The settlement means the St. Landry School Board will pay $800,000 to the attorney who was on the opposing side of the parish's desegregation case that lasted more than four decades.

The St. Landry Parish School Board has agreed to pay $800,000 in attorney fees to an Opelousas lawyer who had requested a federal court award him $9.8 million for representing the plaintiffs in a federal desegregation lawsuit filed 47 years ago.

As of news time today, U.S. District Judge Tucker Melancon has not signed  St. Landry Parish public school system's desegregation agreement.

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The federal judge overseeing desegregation of St. Landry Parish public schools says the 42-year-old case will end in a few months.