20 USC Chapter 39 - EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS

SUBCHAPTER I—EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Part 1—Policy and Purpose

Sec. 1701. Congressional declaration of policy. 1702. Congressional findings.

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. 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. 1758. Reasonable time for developing voluntary school desegregation plans following detailed notice of violations.

The table below lists the classification updates, since Jan. 3, 2012, for the contained sections. If there are multiple sections, they are presented in section number order (original document order).

The most recent Classification Table update that we have noticed was Wednesday, December 26, 2012

An empty table indicates that we see no relevant changes listed in the classification tables. If you suspect that our system may be missing something, please double-check with the Office of the Law Revision Counsel.

How To Use

Multiple entries for a section are listed most recent first, within the section.

The Session Year indicates which session of Congress was responsible for the changes classified. The Congress number forms the first part of the Public Law number; each Congress has two sessions.

Abbreviations used in the Description of Change column:

An empty field implies a standard amendment.
"new" means a new section or new note, or all new text of an existing section or note.
"nt" means note.
"nt [tbl]" means note [table].
"prec" means preceding.
"fr" means a transfer from another section.
"to" means a transfer to another section.
"omitted" means the section is omitted.
"repealed" means the section is repealed.
"nt ed change" and "ed change" - See the Editorial Classification Change Table [pdf].

The Public Law field is linked to the development of the law in the Thomas system at the Library of Congress.

The Statutes at Large field is linked to the text of the law, in the context of its volume of the Statutes at Large, at the Government Printing Office. Please note that it takes a while for these pages to get posted, so for very recent legislation, you need to look at the "enrolled" version at the Thomas site.

The Statutes at Large references have been rendered in the format used as page numbers in the Public Law web pages to which we link, to facilitate copy-paste into browser "find on this (web) page" tools. We are still working on a more direct link facility.

For serious comparison work, we suggest copying all or a portion of the Public Law text into your favorite text editor, for convenient content traversal and window control.

Sections with change type "new" are a special case, still under development. All are now listed, at the title level only.

You will find that occassionally a specific update you notice in a Public Law listed in a classification table will already have made it into the Code. We assume this is an artifact of the LRC edit process. The LII does not edit the LRC content.

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General Reference

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You can look for information about what it is and is not, which titles are positive law, the schedule of Supplements, etc. Under download you can find the source data we use here (GPO locator files), as well as, PDF files that look just like the paper books (these may be rather large).

Refer to the Thomas site for changes that have not yet made it into the classification tables.

20 USC	Description of Change	Session Year	Public Law	Statutes at Large

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