NEW ORLEANS — More than a decade of federal oversight of special education in New Orleans charter schools has ended. This week, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey terminated a sweeping consent judgment that went into effect in early 2015.

That consent judgment resulted from a class-action lawsuit filed by parents of charter school students against the Louisiana Department of Education.

In the years after Hurricane Katrina, the state took over the majority of the city’s schools, converting them from traditional, district-run schools to quasi-autonomous charters, whose day-to-day operations are managed by private, nonprofit groups. The Orleans Parish School Board, which has since taken over the regulation of nearly all of the city’s schools, was later added as a co-defendant.

The 2010 suit alleged that the city’s charter schools discriminated against special education students in their application processes and did not provide them appropriate educational services, as federal law requires. The consent judgment required intensive monitoring of both charter school operators and of the two regulatory bodies responsible for making sure charters comply with federal special education laws: the Department of Education and the NOLA Public Schools district, which is the administrative arm of the Orleans Parish School Board.

After years of good marks from a court-appointed independent monitor, OPSB and the Department of Education formally requested to be released from federal monitoring. After a hearing in November, Zainey said that while problems with special education persist at some schools, the consent decree was primarily intended to address systemic issues.

“Most if not all of the individual problems raised could not plausibly be traced to a systemic failure, and some problems, while causing palpable frustration to class members, did not necessarily constitute a violation of federal law,” Zainey wrote Tuesday.

Ted Beasley, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Education, said the agency would still work with parents to ensure compliance with the law.

An attorney on the case, Neil Ranu, said he was disappointed to see federal oversight end.

“While we have seen some progress over the past 10 years, the school system still cannot guarantee that students with disabilities will receive the services they are entitled to under law,” Ranu said.