 
   CHAPTER 39--EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF 
                                STUDENTS
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
 
                            Part 4--Remedies
 
Sec. 1713. Priority of remedies

    In formulating a remedy for a denial of equal educational 
opportunity or a denial of the equal protection of the laws, which may 
involve directly or indirectly the transportation of students, a court, 
department, or agency of the United States shall consider and make 
specific findings on the efficacy in correcting such denial of the 
following remedies and shall require implementation of the first of the 
remedies set out below, or of the first combination thereof which would 
remedy such denial:
        (a) assigning students to the schools closest to their places of 
    residence which provide the appropriate grade level and type of 
    education for such students, taking into account school capacities 
    and natural physical barriers;
        (b) assigning students to the schools closest to their places of 
    residence which provide the appropriate grade level and type of 
    education for such students, taking into account only school 
    capacities;
        (c) permitting students to transfer from a school in which a 
    majority of the students are of their race, color, or national 
    origin to a school in which a minority of the students are of their 
    race, color, or national origin;
        (d) the creation or revision of attendance zones or grade 
    structures without requiring transportation beyond that described in 
    section 1714 of this title;
        (e) the construction of new schools or the closing of inferior 
    schools;
        (f) the construction or establishment of magnet schools; or
        (g) the development and implementation of any other plan which 
    is educationally sound and administratively feasible, subject to the 
    provisions of sections 1714 and 1715 of this title.

(Pub. L. 93-380, title II, Sec. 214, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 517.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1714, 1715 of this title.
