Desegregation Pacts Set in Maryland, Tennessee, and Louisiana

Education officials in Maryland, Tennessee, and Louisiana struck agreements in December aimed at ending decades-long disputes over lingering segregation in their public systems of higher education.

The three are among 11 states that the federal government has not certified as being officially desegregated.

The Maryland Higher Education Commission signed an accord with the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, spelling out action state

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