Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The transportation of schoolchildren by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving racial integration.
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- verb Present participle of
bus . - noun The
transportation ofschoolchildren , bybus , toschools in otherneighbourhoods in order toalleviate social inequalities or to achieveracial integration .
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Examples
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Once school districts begin busing thousands (millions?) of children to NFL games for field trips, then maybe the comparison will be a little more genuine.
Opera versus the NFL, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Although the district had no plans to engage in busing, parents in the suburban districts were afraid this might happen.
Balkinization 2006
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Plus, check out any north end school and you will see that busing is alive and well.
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It, by way of walking, training and busing, is about an hour from me.
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The Seattle schools were never segregated, but the Seattle school system brought in busing for racial balance, and clung to that policy for years, in spite of the obvious damage it was doing to the schools, and to the city, something
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So, you see, every time Nixon used the word busing, that was
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July 28th, 2009 12: 11 pm ET for all of you who label southerns as racist better check your history the area that had the most problems in busing was your boston from that liberal state of mass. also a lot of dems like byrd and gores daddy where part of the kkk and without republician help lbj great society and civil rights bills would not have pased. all you who pass judgement on southerns just do not have a clue you are self seving elitest who are just plain ignorant of the facts i have lived in the midwest south and northeast those from the northeast are the worst as far as being self serving and judgemental
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O'Gara even floated the idea of busing in jurors from an outside county, and returning them at night to avoid media attention and public outcry.
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O'Gara even floated the idea of busing in jurors from an outside county, and returning them at night to avoid media attention and public outcry.
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O'Gara even floated the idea of busing in jurors from an outside county, and returning them at night to avoid media attention and public outcry.
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