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A 100-year-old rule bans jazz in New Orleans schools. It may finally be reversed

You wouldn’t know it from the flocks of marching bands that parade down St. Charles Avenue during Carnival, but jazz music and dancing has been banned in New Orleans public schools for almost a century. This week the Orleans Parish School Board is poised to reverse that policy exactly 100 years after it was passed.

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