Bossier school desegregation case revived amid efforts to end orders

(The Center Square) – A decades-old civil rights lawsuit filed against Bossier Parish schools has been revived following state and federal efforts to end long-running school desegregation orders in Louisiana.

In recent months, Bossier schools and NAACP attorneys have filed a flurry of legal measures in the 1965 lawsuit that seeks to end racially segregated public schooling in the district. The actions come as Louisiana and the Trump administration work to dismiss federal desegregation orders and give local districts more control.

Bossier has not demonstrated that it is entirely desegregated, said lead plaintiff attorney Kathryn Sadasivan, who works for the New-York based NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. New plaintiffs in the case allege ongoing disparities in their children’s schools, including in disciplinary practices, the quality of school buildings, inequality among faculty and students’ access to advanced courses.

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