Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 2.djvu/424

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Ill STAT. 1504 PUBLIC LAW 105-78 —NOV. 13, 1997 (A) has a national monument declared within the State under the authority of the Act entitled "An Act for the preservation of American antiquities", approved June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) (commonly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906) that incorporates more them 100,000 acres of State school trust lands within the boundaries of the national monument; and (B) ranks in the lowest 25 percent of all States when comparing the average per pupil expenditure (as defined in section 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801)) in the State to the average per pupil expenditure for each State in the United States. INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Library Services Act, $146,340,000. DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Schools. Desegration. Busing. For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of two passenger motor vehicles, $341,064,000. OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Education Organization Act, $61,500,000. OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education Organization Act, $30,242,000. GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system, or for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system. SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school which is nearest the student's home, except for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to CEirry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. The prohibition described in this section does not include the establishment of magnet schools.