---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1655"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1655"
heading: "Uniform rules of evidence of racial discrimination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1655"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Assignment or Transportation of Students"
---

# §1655. Uniform rules of evidence of racial discrimination


The rules of evidence required to prove that State or local authorities are practicing racial discrimination in assigning students to public schools shall be uniform throughout the United States.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–318, title VIII, § 805, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 372.)