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La. Mom: Black Kids Sent to Back of Bus

Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:03:45 PM
By DOUG SIMPSON

Janice Williams, left, and her daughter Jarvonica Williams, 16, pause while talking with a reporter outside their home in Coushatta, La, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006.  A Louisiana school district is investigating complaints that a white school bus driver ordered nine black children, including Javornica, to sit at the back of the bus. Red River Parish Schools Superintendent Kay Easley acknowledged she investigated the claim, and she confirmed to The (Shreveport) Times said the driver wasn't on the same route Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) COUSHATTA, La. (AP) - A Louisiana school district suspended a white bus driver while it investigates complaints that she ordered nine black children to sit at the back of the bus.

No previous complaints have been lodged against the driver, who has worked several years for the Red River Parish school district, school Superintendent Kay Easley said Thursday. She refused to reveal the driver's name.

"I'm trying to get all this straight, and settled, so we can all move on," Easley said.


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