Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 20 : Section 1757


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 1757. Prohibition of forced busing during school year

    (a) Congressional findings
      The Congress finds that - 
        (1) the forced transportation of elementary and secondary
      school students in implementation of the constitutional
      requirement for the desegregation of such schools is
      controversial and difficult under the best planning and
      administration; and
        (2) the forced transportation of elementary and secondary
      school students after the commencement of an academic school year
      is educationally unsound and administratively inefficient.
    (b) Student transportation orders incidental to student transfers
      pursuant to school desegregation plans effective beginning with
      academic school year
      Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no order of a court,
    department, or agency of the United States, requiring the
    transportation of any student incident to the transfer of that
    student from one elementary or secondary school to another such
    school in a local educational agency pursuant to a plan requiring
    such transportation for the racial desegregation of any school in
    that agency, shall be effective until the beginning of an academic
    school year.
    (c) "Academic school year" defined
      For the purpose of this section, the term "academic school year"
    means, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Secretary, the
    customary beginning of classes for the school year at an elementary
    or secondary school of a local educational agency for a school year
    that occurs not more often than once in any twelve-month period.
    (d) Orders subject to provisions of section
      The provisions of this section apply to any order which was not
    implemented at the beginning of the 1974-1975 academic year.



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