busing

or bus·sing

[ buhs-ing ]

noun

1. 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

1. 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

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.

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

Example Sentences

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Biden administration accepted asylum seekers in accordance with the law, but there is no evidence to suggest that it engaged in busing migrants, as Abbott suggested, according to NBC News.

From Salon

During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs.

From Los Angeles Times

Most of those banished from Paris won’t qualify for permanent housing in their new locations, and as for asylum status, one lawyer in France calls the busing program “an antechamber to deportation.”

From Los Angeles Times

Still, she made a dramatic impression during one Democratic debate, attacking Biden for working with Senate segregationists decades ago in opposition to school busing.

From Los Angeles Times