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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 carry 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. SEC. 303. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. (TRANSFER
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SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the Department of Education in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. SEC. 305. For an additional amount to carry out subpart 1 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such subpart, $4,300,000,000, pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. SEC. 306. Subpart 12 of part D of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7265 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 5522(b) (20 U.S.C. 7265a(b)), by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(4) To authorize and develop cultural and educational programs relating to any Federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi.’’; (2) in section 5523 (20 U.S.C. 7265b)— (A) in subsection (a)— (i) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (8) as paragraphs (7) through (9), respectively; and (ii) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following: ‘‘(6) The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Choctaw, Mississippi.’’; and (B) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(7) Cultural and educational programs relating to any Federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi.’’; and (3) in section 5525(1) (20 U.S.C. 7265d(1))— (A) in subparagraph (a), by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
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