Mississippi school district named in desegregation lawsuit is allowed to shed federal supervision
A majority-Black Mississippi school district received a judge's approval Tuesday to shed federal supervision in a decades-old desegregation lawsuit that included a 2013 order to move away from harsh discipline that disproportionately affected Black students. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate praised the Meridian Public School District for reducing the number of suspensions that led some students to drop out of school. “Meridian is no longer known for a school-to-prison pipeline,” the district's