Title 20, Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students

Congressional declaration of policy

Congressional findings

Denial of equal educational opportunity prohibited

Balance not required

Assignment on neighborhood basis not a denial of equal educational opportunity

Civil actions by individuals denied equal educational opportunities or by Attorney General

Population changes without effect, per se, on school population changes

Jurisdiction of district courts

Intervention by Attorney General

Civil actions by Attorney General; notice of violations; certification respecting undertaking appropriate remedial action

Formulating remedies; applicability

Priority of remedies

Transportation of students

District lines

Voluntary adoption of remedies

Reopening proceedings

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

Definitions

Separability

Prohibition against assignment or transportation of students to overcome racial imbalance

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

Uniform rules of evidence requirement

Provisions respecting transportation of pupils to achieve racial balance and judicial power to insure compliance with constitutional standards applicable to the entire United States

Additional priority of remedies after finding of de jure segregation

Remedies with respect to school district lines

Prohibition of forced busing during school year

Reasonable time for developing voluntary school desegregation plans following detailed notice of violations