---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1651"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1651"
heading: "Prohibition against assignment or transportation of students to overcome racial imbalance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1651"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Assignment or Transportation of Students"
---

# §1651. Prohibition against assignment or transportation of students to overcome racial imbalance


No provision of this Act shall be construed to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–318, title VIII, § 801, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 371.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 92–318, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 235, known as the Education Amendments of 1972. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables.