A bill to exercise the authority of Congress to enforce the 14th amendment to the Constitution by defining for the purposes of the equal protection guarantee the term "unitary school system," and to declare the policy of the United States respecting certain voluntary transfers by students among certain schools of any school system.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Defines a "unitary school system", for purposes of the equal protection guarantee of the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as one within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race, color, or national origin, and this shall be so, whether or not such school system was in the past segregated de jure or de facto. Declares it to be the policy of the United States to encourage school systems to adopt programs permitting any student who attends a school in which persons of his race, color, or national origin constitute a majority of the students to transfer, if he desires to do so, to the nearest appropriate school in which persons of his race, color, or national origin constitute a minority of the students.…