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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

Officials have expressed desire to withdraw from other orders they see as an unnecessary burden on schools

FILE – A group of African American students, left, enter the Boothville-Venice School in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana on Sept. 12, 1966 as a group of white mothers wait at the entrance of the school. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, file)
FILE – A group of African American students, left, enter the Boothville-Venice School in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana on Sept. 12, 1966 as a group of white mothers wait at the entrance of the school. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, file)
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Dozens of school districts across the South remain under agreements to work toward integration.

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