Opinion ID: 2112848
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Heading: Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974

Text: The EEOA is a multipurpose statute. The Act declares it to be a policy of the United States that all children enrolled in public schools are entitled to equal educational opportunity without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin. 20 U.S.C. ง 1701(a)(1) (2000). [8] To effectuate this policy, the EEOA prohibits in pertinent part: No State shall deny equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, byโ    (c) the assignment by an educational agency of a student to a school, other than the one closest to his or her place of residence within the school district in which he or she resides, if the assignment results in a greater degree of segregation of students on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin among the schools of such agency than would result if such student were assigned to the school closest to his or her place of residence within the school district of such agency providing the appropriate grade level and type of education for such student;    (e) the transfer by an educational agency, whether voluntary or otherwise, of a student from one school to another if the purpose and effect of such transfer is to increase segregation of students on the basis of race, color, or national origin among the schools of such agency. 20 U.S.C. ง 1703 (2000). With respect to racial desegregation, the EEOA is essentially a restatement of preexisting case law, and its prohibitions are mostly coextensive with the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. 4 J. Rapp, Education Law ง 10.02[3], at 10-19 (2008); 3 J. Cook & J. Sobieski, Civil Rights Actions ถ 16.19, at 16-99 (2008).