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PUBLIC LAW 93-380-AUG. 21, 1974

[88 STAT.

any school attendance area prescribed, by competent State or local authority for the purposes of achieving a balance among students with respect to race, sex, religion, or socioeconomic status, the effectiveness of such order shall be postponed until all appeals in connection with such order have been exhausted or, in the event no appeals are taken, until the time for such appeals has expired. This section shall expire at midnight on June 30, 1978. PROVISION R E Q U I R I N G T H A T RULES OF EVir>EN(^E BE UNIFORM

20 USC 17S3.

ggQ 254. The rules of evidence required to prove that State or local authorities are practicing racial discrimination in assigning students to public schools shall be uniform throughout the United States. APPLICATION OF PROVISO OF SECTION 4 0 7 (a) OF THE CIVIL R I G H T S ACT OF 19G4 TO THE E N T I R E UNITED STATES

20 USC 1754. gj,^^ 255. The proviso of section 407(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 42use2oooc.6. ^9(54 providing in substance that no court or official of the United States shall be empowered to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards shall apply to all public school pupils and to every public school system, public school and public school board, as defined by title IV, under all circumstances and conditions and at all times in every State, district, territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States, regardless of whether the residence of such public school pupils or the principal offices of such public school system, public school or public school board is situated in the northern, eastern, western, or southern part of the United States. ADDITIONAL PRIORITY OF

20 USC 1755.

REMEDIES

gj,(. 256. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after June 30, 1974 no court of the United States shall order the implementation of any plan to remedy a finding of de jure segregation which involves the transportation of students, unless the court first finds that all alternative remedies are inadequate. REMEDIES W I T H RESPECT TO SCHOOL DISTRICT L I N E S

20 USC 1756.

gj,(.^ 257. In the formulation of remedies under this title the lines drawn by a State subdividing its territory into separate school districts, shall not be ignored or altered except where it is established that the lines were drawn, or maintained or crossed for the purpose, and had the effect of segregating children among public schools on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin, or where it is established that, as a result of discriminatory actions within the school districts, the lines have had the eft'ect of segregating children among public schools on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin. P R O H I B I T I O N OF FORCED B U S I N G DURING SCHOOL YEAR

20 USC 1757.

gEC. 258. (a) 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

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