(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 19741975 academic year.
