Superintendent Dale Skinner announced at the Natchitoches Parish School Board Committee meeting Oct. 3 that Judge Dee D. Drell has declared unitary status for the school system. The school board was under a federal court desegregation order since 1981.
Skinner attributed the increase of the district rating from a C to a B and the hard work of Personnel Director Linda Page to hire minority teachers as factors in the judge’s decision.
Skinner declined to comment further on the ruling, saying everything will be explained to the board at a meeting Oct. 10.
It’s time; Judge Nauman Scott issued the directive in 1970-71 if my memory is correct.