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Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 20 U.S.C. 1703(f)
Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. 1703(f). Prohibits denial of equal educational opportunity by 'the failure by an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional programs.'
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- Record
- eeoa-20-usc-1703f
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- archive
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
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The statute the Ann Arbor case was decided under. Subsection (f) is the “language barriers” clause: no state shall deny equal educational opportunity through the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation. The subsection names no language and defines no barrier; what counts as a “language barrier,” and whose barrier it is, was left for the courts.
Provenance
- Creator
- United States Congress
- Published
- 1974
- Accessed
- 2026-08-02
- External record
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1703
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