Little Rock Schools to Lose Desegregation Aid - AP

The nation watched as federalized National Guardsmen enforced a court's desegregation order at Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School.  A desegregation plan entered in 1982 will soon come to an end thanks to a federal District Judge's Price Marshall's ruling - though there will doubtless be another review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit which has blocked previous efforts by the judge.  - GWC

Judge Approves Desegregation Plan Termination in Arkansas // Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — January 13, 2014 

A federal judge approved a settlement Monday that would allow the state of Arkansas to stop making payments to three Little Rock-area school districts to aid their desegregation efforts.

Federal District Judge Price Marshall signed off on the pact after hearing several hours of testimony from opponents of the deal and lawyers for the signees: the state, the districts and black schoolchildren.