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A federal judge rejected an effort to dismiss a 1965 school desegregation case in Concordia Parish .

Louisiana and the Justice Department had sought to end decades-old desegregation orders.

Judge Dee Drell ruled the case must proceed unless the district proves it dismantled segregation.

The school district and state have appealed the decision.

The Trump administration ‘s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge in Louisiana.

After the judge refused to close the books on a desegregation case dating back to the 1960s, the Concordia Parish school system in central Louisiana and the state on Tuesday filed an appeal. The case offers the first major test of the government’s attempt to quickly end some o

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