Georgia Nonprofit Drops Suit Over Cuts to Desegregation Program

The Southern Education Foundation dropped its lawsuit against the US Department of Education after the agency reinstated the nonprofit’s funding, which it uses to address remaining impediments to equal access to education in the South.

The Atlanta-based group on Tuesday filed a motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The department in February terminated funding for the Equity Assistance Center for the Southern region, a grant program authorized under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to address the “remnants of segregated education.” The foundation, which operates the EAC in ...