Garland ISD is one of more than 80 school systems nationwide still under federal desegregation orders.

Why it matters: The Trump administration is signaling it wants to ditch federal desegregation efforts in public school systems, a move that would end decades-old programs aimed at improving education opportunities for nonwhite students.

The big picture: At least 84 school districts nationwide remain under court orders or federal monitoring agreements, an Axios review found.

• More than half of those districts are in Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi in the South's "Black Belt," a rural and historically impoverished area with large Black populations dating back to enslavement.
• Another 26% of the districts are in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

State of play: The Trump administration moved last month to dismiss a school desegregation case in Louisiana that began in 1966 in mostly white Plaquemines Parish.

• Plaquemines schools — like many systems targeted by the government's efforts — were run by white segregationists when Lyndon Johnson's administration sued the district for resisting the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in schools.

Zoom in: Garland ISD is one of five Texas districts under active desegregation orders.

• Midland ISD; Mumford ISD, near College Station; and Port Arthur ISD are also under such orders.
• Longview ISD in East Texas remains under a voluntary desegregation plan.

Context: Garland operates under a school choice system that allows residents to rank schools they want their children to attend.

• The program started in 1970 as part of the district's desegregation efforts. The system ensures no campus has a white student population that is 20 percentage points above or below the district-wide percentage of white students.

What they're saying: "They want to blend diversity, equity and inclusion with civil rights," Raymond Pierce, president and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation, tells Axios about the Trump administration. "DEI is good policy, but desegregation is the law."

One of the world's most prestigious classical music competitions will crown its new winner in Fort Worth.

State of pianists: The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is held every four years to showcase young musicians considered to be the top emerging talent in the world.

• This year's competition featured 28 pianists chosen out of 340 applicants from 45 countries and regions.

Zoom in: The six finalists range from ages 22 to 30, representing Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Russia and the U.S.

• Finalist performances started yesterday and will continue tonight at Bass Performance Hall. The final concert is Saturday.

How to watch: Some tickets are still available. You can also livestream the concerts.

Meet the finalists

A lanky Texan who could play the piano before he could read briefly gave the world a feeling of peace in 1958.

Why it matters: Van Cliburn showed that music transcends language, philosophical and political differences.

• The Julliard-trained pianist received an eight-minute standing ovation during his final performance at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, prompting the Russian judges to ask the Soviet leader if they could award the American the prize.

State of play: Cliburn's win in April 1958 briefly warmed Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

• His recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which he had played in Moscow, was the first classical album to go platinum.

The intrigue: Several months after his win, Cliburn was told that an international piano competition would be held in his honor.

• The first Cliburn competition was held in 1962 and drew competitors from the Soviet Union. Two of them won the silver and bronze medals.

Flashback: Though Cliburn retired from public performance in 1978, he performed at the White House in 1987 for President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

One final note: Days before Cliburn's death in 2013, violist Joshua Bell and his piano accompanist performed in Cliburn's home in Fort Worth.

• He requested they play Tchaikovsky.

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America was once great.

The big pitcher: It was possible to go to a baseball game for just a few bucks and buy a beer for 10 cents.

• But, we can't have fun anymore because baseball fans got a little crazy in the '70s.

Flashback: The Texas Rangers "won" a game on this date in 1974 because fans drank so much 10-cent beer they stormed the Cleveland ballfield.

• The umpires called the tied game for Texas after fans attacked Rangers outfielder Jeff Burroughs.

What happened: Cleveland advertised the 10-cent beer night to attract more fans. There were 25,134 fans listed in the stands that night. They drank about 60,000 cups of beer.

• By midway through the game, at least one fan had run across the field naked and others had mooned and flashed their fellow spectators.

The scene: Cleveland rallied to tie the game in the ninth inning but fans were too drunk by then to stay calm. They attacked the umpires and Rangers.

• An inebriated woman, still holding her purse, headed toward the pitcher's mound until police escorted her away.

The intrigue: The debacle occurred less than a week after the bench-clearing "Texas brawl" in Arlington.

• The Rangers had hosted their own 10-cent beer nights without the same level of drama as in Cleveland.

The bottom line: If we had a time machine, we would go back to this day just to watch the mayhem.