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It’s unclear whether Berkeley tried to use federal funds for its program, but the kind of provisions that passed Congress with Biden’s support would have prevented them from doing so, said Philip Tegeler, of the National Coalition on School Diversity.
Last year, Congress axed appropriations restrictions on federal funds for integration busing, but Democratic lawmakers are still trying to remove the 1974 section of the General Education Provisions Act with the same purpose.
“We hope that this will be the year when Congress eliminates this anachronism from the General Education Provisions Act,” said Tegeler, who is also president and executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
