§ 1757. — Prohibition of forced busing during school year.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC1757]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 39--EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF
STUDENTS
SUBCHAPTER II--ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS
Sec. 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.
(Pub. L. 93-380, title II, Sec. 258, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 520; Pub.
L. 96-88, title III, Sec. 301(a)(1), title V, Sec. 507, Oct. 17, 1979,
93 Stat. 677, 692.)
Transfer of Functions
``Secretary'', meaning the Secretary of Education, substituted for
``Commissioner'' in subsec. (c) pursuant to sections 301(a)(1) and 507
of Pub. L. 96-88, which are classified to sections 3441(a)(1) and 3507
of this title and which transferred functions of Commissioner of
Education to Secretary of Education.
