---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1716"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1716"
heading: "Voluntary adoption of remedies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1716"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students"
  - "Subchapter I — Equal Educational Opportunities"
  - "Part 4 — Remedies"
---

# §1716. Voluntary adoption of remedies


Nothing in this subchapter prohibits an educational agency from proposing, adopting, requiring, or implementing any plan of desegregation, otherwise lawful, that is at variance with the standards set out in this subchapter nor shall any court, [department](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3), or agency of the United States be prohibited from approving implementation of a plan which goes beyond what can be required under this subchapter, if such plan is voluntarily proposed by the appropriate educational agency.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 217, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 518.)

## 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.