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A judge approved a settlement Friday in the St. Louis school desegregation case that allows busing to go on but frees the district from court supervision.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Sr. said the settlement between the state and other parties was “a fair, reasonable and adequate resolution to this historic case.”
Lawyers for 21 parties have been quarreling since 1972, when a black mother filed a suit blaming St. Louis and the state for segregated schools.
The settlement ends the court-ordered school desegregation program. It scales back busing between the city and county schools, maintains the city’s magnet school program, provides $180 million for new schools and sets achievement goals in city schools.
