---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1704"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1704"
heading: "Balance not required"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1704"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students"
  - "Subchapter I — Equal Educational Opportunities"
  - "Part 2 — Unlawful Practices"
---

# §1704. Balance not required


The failure of an educational agency to attain a balance, on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin, of students among its schools shall not constitute a denial of equal educational opportunity, or equal protection of the laws.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 205, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 515.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.