Title 20, EducationRelease 119-102
§1707 Population Changes Without Effect, Per Se, on School Population Changes
Title 20 › CHAPTER 39 — EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS › SUBCHAPTER I — EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES › Part 3 — Enforcement › § 1707
Summary
If a court finds a school system is fully desegregated, is "unitary," or meets constitutional rules, later changes in which students attend a school because people move do not automatically allow a new lawsuit or force changes to the court-approved desegregation plan. Such population shifts alone are not a valid reason to require a new or different desegregation order.
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Title 20, §1707
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When a court of competent jurisdiction determines that a school system is desegregated, or that it meets the constitutional requirements, or that it is a unitary system, or that it has no vestiges of a dual system, and thereafter residential shifts in population occur which result in school population changes in any school within such a desegregated school system, such school population changes so occurring shall not, per se, constitute a cause for civil action for a new plan of desegregation or for modification of the court approved plan.
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Effective Date
Section effective on and after sixtieth day after Aug. 21, 1974, see section 2(c) of Pub. L. 93–380, set out as a note under section 1221–1 of this title.
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Citation
20 U.S.C. § 1707
Title 20, Education
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102