20 U.S.C. § 1757 — Prohibition of forced busing during school year

(a) Congressional findings. Congress finds that: (1) forced transportation of elementary and secondary students to carry out constitutional school-desegregation requirements is controversial and difficult even with the best planning and administration; and (2) forced transportation after an academic year has begun 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. Despite any other law, an order by a United States court, department, or agency requiring transportation of a student as part of transferring the student between elementary or secondary schools in a local educational agency, under a plan requiring that transportation to racially desegregate a school, does not take effect until the beginning of an academic school year. (c) “Academic school year” defined. For this section, “academic school year” means, under the Secretary’s regulations, the customary start of classes for the school year at an elementary or secondary school of a local educational agency, occurring no more often than once in any 12-month period. This section does not otherwise define the term. (d) Orders subject to provisions of section. This section applies to an order that was not implemented at the beginning of the 1974–1975 academic year.