TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge last week approved ending a Hendry County school-desegregation lawsuit that started in 1970, after the U.S. Department of Justice and the district agreed that “vestiges of the prior de jure segregation” had been eliminated.

U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno ordered the dismissal of the case. The Department of Justice said in an announcement Friday that another school-desegregation case filed in 1970 in Copiah County, Miss., also had been dismissed.

“In this administration, we are ending prolonged court oversight that does not reflect the reality in classrooms today,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a prepared statement. “After 55 years of federal control, these local school districts c

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