The Bossier Parish School Board near Shreveport and the federal government have agreed to end more than 60 years of court-ordered oversight aimed at desegregating schools. Superintendent Jason Rowland said the dismissal allows the district to make its own decisions in the best interest of students and local communities. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill described these decades-old consent decrees as expensive, ineffective and as stripping power from local communities. This settlement follows a similar lifting of desegregation mandates last month for the Concordia Parish School Board. The original lawsuit was filed in 1964, but the plaintiffs are now deceased and their children could not be located.
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