---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1755"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1755"
heading: "Additional priority of remedies after finding of de jure segregation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1755"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students"
  - "Subchapter II — Assignment and Transportation of Students"
---

# §1755. Additional priority of remedies after finding of de jure segregation


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after June 30, 1974 no court of the United States shall order the implementation of any plan to remedy a finding of de jure segregation which involves the transportation of students, unless the court first finds that all alternative remedies are inadequate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 256, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 520.)

## 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.