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 92 STAT. 2252

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 to contract for such services as may be necessary to enable them to carry out their evaluation functions. "(c)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums, not in excess of 21^ per centum of the amount otherwise appropriated for such year for the purposes of this title, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection.".

TITLE VI—ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW TITLE VI OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 EMERGENCY SCHOOL AID

SEC. 601. (a) Title VT of the Act is amended to read as follows: Emergency School Aid Act

^'TITLE VI—EMERGENCY SCHOOL AID u SHORT TITLE

20 USC 3191.

"SEC. 601. This title may be cited as the 'Emergency School Aid Act' u FINDINGS AND PURPOSE

20 USC 3192.

"SEC. 602. (a) The Congress finds that the process of eliminating or preventing minority group isolation and improving the quality of education for all children often involves the expenditure of additional funds to which local educational agencies do not have access. "(b) The purpose of this title is to provide financial assistance— "(1) to meet the special needs incident to the elimination of minority group segregation and discrimination among students and faculty in elementary and secondary schools; and "(2) to encourage the voluntary elimination, reduction, or prevention of minority group isolation in elementary and secondary schools with substantial proportions of minority group students. " P O L I C Y WITH R E S P E C T TO THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW

Guidelines and criteria. 20 USC 3193.

42 USC 2000d. Ante, p. 2188.

"SEC. 603. (a) It is the policy of the United States that guidelines and criteria established pursuant to this title shall be applied uniformly in all regions of the United States in dealing with conditions of segregation by race in the schools of the local educational agencies of any State without regard to the origin or cause of such segregation. "(b) I t is the policy of the United States that guidelines and criteria established pursuant to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and section 182 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1966 shall be applied uniformly in all regions of the United States in dealing with conditions of segregation by race whether de jure or de facto in the schools of the local educational agencies of any State without regard to the origin or cause of such segregation. uAUTHORIZATION

20 USC 3194,

"SEC. 604. (a) The Assistant Secretary shall, in accordance with the provisions of this title, carry out a program designed to achieve the purpose set forth in section 602(b). The Assistant Secretary shall

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