20 U.S.C. § 1720 - Definitions

(a) The term educational agency means a local educational agency or a State educational agency as defined by section 801(k)1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

(b) The term local educational agency means a local educational agency as defined by section 801(f)1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

(c) The term segregation means the operation of a school system in which students are wholly or substantially separated among the schools of an educational agency on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin or within a school on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

(d) The term desegregation means desegregation as defined by section 2000c (b) of title 42.

(e) An educational agency shall be deemed to transport a student if any part of the cost of such students transportation is paid by such agency.