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