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
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While the loss of the registration is not tantamount to an outright ban, the Jevovah’s Witnesses would forfeit state subsidies and right to seal marriages.