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title: "20 U.S.C. § 1716"
description: "Voluntary adoption of remedies"
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title_number: 20
title_name: "EDUCATION"
chapter_number: "39"
chapter_name: "EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS"
section: "1716"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1716"
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# 20 U.S.C. § 1716 - Voluntary adoption of remedies
## Text
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, 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.
(Pub. L. 93380, title II, § 217, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 518.)
## 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. 93380, set out as a note under section 12211 of this title.