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title: "20 U.S.C. § 1707"
description: "Population changes without effect, per se, on school population changes"
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title_number: 20
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citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1707"
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# 20 U.S.C. § 1707 - Population changes without effect, per se, on school population changes

## Text

When a court of competent jurisdiction determines that a school system is desegregated, or that it meets the constitutional requirements, or that it is a unitary system, or that it has no vestiges of a dual system, and thereafter residential shifts in population occur which result in school population changes in any school within such a desegregated school system, such school population changes so occurring shall not, per se, constitute a cause for civil action for a new plan of desegregation or for modification of the court approved plan.

(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 208, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 516.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection 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.