Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 20


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Chapter 39 - Notes
              SUBCHAPTER I - EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES          
                        PART 1 - POLICY AND PURPOSE                    
    Sec.                                                     
    1701.       Congressional declaration of policy.                  
                  (a)  Entitlement to equal educational opportunity;
                        neighborhood as appropriate basis.            
                  (b)  Purpose.                                       
    1702.       Congressional findings.                               
                  (a)  Dual school systems as denial of equal
                        protection; depletion of financial resources
                        of local educational agencies; transportation
                        of students; inadequacy of guidelines.        
                  (b)  Necessity of Congress to specify appropriate
                        remedies for elimination of dual school
                        systems.                                      
                        PART 2 - UNLAWFUL PRACTICES                    
    1703.       Denial of equal educational opportunity prohibited.   
    1704.       Balance not required.                                 
    1705.       Assignment on neighborhood basis not a denial of equal
                 educational opportunity.                             
                           PART 3 - ENFORCEMENT                       
    1706.       Civil actions by individuals denied equal educational
                 opportunities or by Attorney General.                
    1707.       Population changes without effect, per se, on school
                 population changes.                                  
    1708.       Jurisdiction of district courts.                      
    1709.       Intervention by Attorney General.                     
    1710.       Civil actions by Attorney General; notice of
                 violations; certification respecting undertaking
                 appropriate remedial action.                         
                             PART 4 - REMEDIES                         
    1712.       Formulating remedies; applicability.                  
    1713.       Priority of remedies.                                 
    1714.       Transportation of students.                           
                  (a)  Limitation to school closest or next closest to
                        place of residence.                           
                  (b)  Health risks; impingement on educational
                        process.                                      
                  (c)  School population changes resulting from
                        population changes.                           
    1715.       District lines.                                       
    1716.       Voluntary adoption of remedies.                       
    1717.       Reopening proceedings.                                
    1718.       Limitation on court orders; termination of orders
                 conditioned upon compliance with fifth and fourteenth
                 amendments; statement of basis for termination
                 orders; stay of termination orders.                  
                           PART 5 - DEFINITIONS                       
    1720.       Definitions.                                          
                     PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS                 
    1721.       Separability.                                         
         SUBCHAPTER II - ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS     
    1751.       Prohibition against assignment or transportation of
                 students to overcome racial imbalance.               
    1752.       Appeals from Federal district court transfer or
                 transportation orders affecting school attendance
                 areas and achieving balancing of students;
                 postponement of Federal court orders pending exercise
                 of appellate remedy; expiration of section.          
    1753.       Uniform rules of evidence requirement.                
    1754.       Provisions respecting transportation of pupils to
                 achieve racial balance and judicial power to insure
                 compliance with constitutional standards applicable
                 to the entire United States.                         
    1755.       Additional priority of remedies after finding of de
                 jure segregation.                                    
    1756.       Remedies with respect to school district lines.       
    1757.       Prohibition of forced busing during school year.      
                  (a)  Congressional findings.                        
                  (b)  Student transportation orders incidental to
                        student transfers pursuant to school
                        desegregation plans effective beginning with
                        academic school year.                         
                  (c)  "Academic school year" defined.                
                  (d)  Orders subject to provisions of section.       
    1758.       Reasonable time for developing voluntary school
                 desegregation plans following detailed notice of
                 violations.                                          
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