busing

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[buhs-ing]

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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.

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.

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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of busing¹

1885–90; bus ¹ (v.) + -ing ¹, spelled irregular with single s, perhaps to avoid association with buss

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Example Sentences

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Congressional Republicans slipped a provision into their budget passed Thursday that would hand out billions of dollars to pay for things like Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s immigrant busing initiative and state-funded border wall.

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“We were busing three, four times a week, just hanging out with everybody for an extra 30-40 minutes a day that we usually wouldn’t have,” Cholowsky said.

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But truthfully, he confused many people with contradictions about where he stood on some issues, including abortion and busing to integrate public schools.

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From inside the restaurant, the guys would clamber up to the roof, wait for the “all clear” and then get right back to busing tables, washing dishes and cooking.

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He counterpunched by claiming that “people don’t go to her rallies” adding: “There’s no reason to go. And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there.”

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