Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§2000c–2 Technical Assistance in Preparation, Adoption, and Implementation of Plans for Desegregation of Public Schools
Title 42 › CHAPTER 21 — CIVIL RIGHTS › SUBCHAPTER IV — PUBLIC EDUCATION › § 2000c–2
Summary
The Secretary of Education can help any state, city, school board, district, or other government that runs public schools when they ask. The help is to make, approve, and carry out plans to end school segregation and can include sharing ways to handle special education problems and sending Education Department staff or other expert advisers to assist.
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Title 42, §2000c–2
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The Secretary is authorized, upon the application of any school board, State, municipality, school district, or other governmental unit legally responsible for operating a public school or schools, to render technical assistance to such applicant in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for the desegregation of public schools. Such technical assistance may, among other activities, include making available to such agencies information regarding effective methods of coping with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation, and making available to such agencies personnel of the Department of Education or other persons specially equipped to advise and assist them in coping with such problems.
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Transfer of Functions
“Secretary”, meaning the Secretary of Education, and “Department of Education” substituted in text for “Commissioner” and “Office of Education”, respectively, pursuant to section 301(a)(1), (b)(2) and 507 of Pub. L. 96–88, which are classified to section 3441(a)(1), (b)(2) and 3507 of Title 20, Education, and which transferred all functions of Commissioner of Education to Secretary of Education and transferred Office of Education to the Department of Education.
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42 U.S.C. § 2000c–2
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102