Title 20 — Education
Part 1 · Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students
§ 1701. Congressional declaration of policy
Statutory text
Entitlement to equal educational opportunity; neighborhood as appropriate basis
The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States that—
all children enrolled in public schools are entitled to equal educational opportunity without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin; and
the neighborhood is the appropriate basis for determining public school assignments.
Purpose
In order to carry out this policy, it is the purpose of this subchapter to specify appropriate remedies for the orderly removal of the vestiges of the dual school system.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–380 title II § 202 · [88 Stat. 484]
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1701
(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 202, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 514.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 202, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 514.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 202. declaration of policy (a) The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States that— (1) all children enrolled in public schools are entitled to equal educational opportunity without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin; and (2) the neighborhood is the appropriate basis for determining public school assignments. (b) In order to carry out this policy, it is the purpose of this part to specify appropriate remedies for the orderly removal of the vestiges of the dual school system.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on and after sixtieth day after , see section 2(c) of Pub. L. 93–380, set out as a note under section 1221–1 of this title.
Short Title
Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 201, , 88 Stat. 514, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and section 1228 of this title and amending section 1608 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974’.”