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§1714 Transportation of Students

Title 20 › Chapter 39— EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS › Subchapter I— EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES › Part 4— Remedies › § 1714

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal courts, departments, or agencies cannot order a plan that forces a student to be sent to a school farther away than the closest or next-closest school that offers the right grade and type of instruction. They also cannot require transportation if it would put the student’s health at risk or seriously disrupt the student’s learning. If a court with authority has ruled a school system desegregated or unitary, and later neighborhood moves change school populations, federal bodies cannot force the school system to make or change desegregation plans that would require busing students to fix those population shifts.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §1714

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(a)No court, department, or agency of the United States shall, pursuant to section 1713 of this title, order the implementation of a plan that would require the transportation of any student to a school other than the school closest or next closest to his place of residence which provides the appropriate grade level and type of education for such student.
(b)No court, department, or agency of the United States shall require directly or indirectly the transportation of any student if such transportation poses a risk to the health of such student or constitutes a significant impingement on the educational process with respect to such student.
(c)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, no educational agency because of such shifts shall be required by any court, department, or agency of the United States to formulate, or implement any new desegregation plan, or modify or implement any modification of the court approved desegregation plan, which would require transportation of students to compensate wholly or in part for such shifts in school population so occurring.

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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. § 1714

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60