busing
or bus·sing
[ buhs-ing ]
/ ˈbʌs ɪŋ /
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noun
the transporting of students by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
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How to use busing in a sentence
No wonder New York's school bussing costs $7,000 a year per student.
New York City Bus Strike: A Cosy Cartel, Running Out of Gas|Megan McArdle|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEASTRather, the Democrats got more liberal, on crime and bussing, and the white ethnics who felt victimized by these policies fled.
"These huskings are but low bussing-matches," said Mrs. Edwards with much disgust.
The Duke of Stockbridge|Edward Bellamy
Cultural definitions for busing
busing
The movement of students from one neighborhood to a school in another neighborhood, usually by bus and usually to break down de facto segregation of public schools.
notes for busing
A Supreme Court decision in 1971 ruling that busing was an appropriate means of achieving integrated schools (see integration) was received with widespread, sometimes violent, resistance, particularly among whites into whose neighborhoods and schools black children were to be bused. In 1991, the Court ruled that school districts could end busing if they had done everything “practicable” to eliminate the traces of past discrimination.
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