§ 2000c Definitions
§ 2000c-2 Technical assistance in preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for desegregation of public schools
§ 2000c-3 Training institutes; stipends; travel allowances
§ 2000c-4 Grants for inservice training in dealing with and for employment of specialists to advise in problems incident to desegregation; factors for consideration in making grants and fixing amounts, terms, and conditions
§ 2000c-5 Payments; adjustments; advances or reimbursement; installments
§ 2000c-6 Civil actions by the Attorney General
§ 2000c-7 Liability of United States for costs
§ 2000c-8 Personal suits for relief against discrimination in public education
§ 2000c-9 Classification and assignment

Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 21 > Subchapter IV - Public Education

  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Desegregation: means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin, but "desegregation" shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance. See 42 USC 2000c
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Public school: means any elementary or secondary educational institution, and "public college" means any institution of higher education or any technical or vocational school above the secondary school level, provided that such public school or public college is operated by a State, subdivision of a State, or governmental agency within a State, or operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property, or funds or property derived from a governmental source. See 42 USC 2000c
  • School board: means any agency or agencies which administer a system of one or more public schools and any other agency which is responsible for the assignment of students to or within such system. See 42 USC 2000c
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of Education. See 42 USC 2000c
  • State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
  • writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1