The Justice Department said Thursday it was seeking to end more than 50 long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow era.
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said her office was “ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts” because the effort “does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today.”
Dhillon described the consent decrees as “onerous and outdated.”
