A bill to protect the concept of neighborhood schools, to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies in each State in order to strengthen neighborhood schools and to increase the use of such schools as community, cultural, and educational centers.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Title I: Neighborhood Schools Program - Neighborhood School Act - Makes it the policy of the United States to encourage the concept of the neighborhood school so that students are assigned to a public elementary or secondary school solely on the basis of residence within the geographic zone which that school serves. Makes it a policy of the United States that no student may be denied attendance at that neighborhood school serving the geographic zone in which he resides on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, or national origin. Provides that any student has the right to transfer and be provided transportation out of the neighborhood public elementary or secondary school serving the geographic zone in which he resides if such a student is a member of a minority group and that minority group constitutes at least fifty percent of the students enrolled in that school. Authorizes Federal funds to be made available under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or any other provision of law to pay the cost of the assignment or transportation of students in accordance with the provisions contained in this title. Prohibits any officer or employee of any department agency or…