The Cleveland School District has been given about a month to respond to questions from the Department of Justice about compliance with a desegregation consent decree that dates back to 1969.

The Justice Department last year toured the district. School board attorney Jamie Jacks says the department now wants a response to its findings.

Jacks says among questions asked by the Justice Department concerned the district’s efforts to eliminate all-black schools, about the racial composition of the faculty and the condition of school buildings.

Dozens of Mississippi school districts entered into consent decrees with the Justice Department in the 1960s and 1970s to end segregation. Many of those schools district remain under federal oversight.