Title 20 — Education
Part 4 · Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students
§ 1716. Voluntary adoption of remedies
Statutory text
Nothing in this subchapter prohibits an educational agency from proposing, adopting, requiring, or implementing any plan of desegregation, otherwise lawful, that is at variance with the standards set out in this subchapter nor shall any court, department, or agency of the United States be prohibited from approving implementation of a plan which goes beyond what can be required under this subchapter, if such plan is voluntarily proposed by the appropriate educational agency.
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 § 217 · [88 Stat. 484]
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1716
(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 217, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 518.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 217, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 518.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 217. voluntary adoption of remedies Nothing in this part prohibits an educational agency from proposing, adopting, requiring, or implementing any plan of desegregation, otherwise lawful, that is at variance with the standards set out in this part nor shall any court, department, or agency of the United States be prohibited from approving implementation of a plan which goes beyond what can be required under this part, if such plan is voluntarily proposed by the appropriate educational agency.
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.