pro-busing

or pro-bus·sing

[ proh-buhs-ing ]

adjective

1. favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.

Example Sentences

When her pro-busing side won in court, she expressed dismay over an integration plan that excluded the black children of Watts.

From Los Angeles Times

Jeffrey A. Raffel, who was executive director of the Delaware Committee on the School Decision in the 1970s, said it was hard for any political leader in the state to be pro-busing at the time, given the public passions against it.

From Washington Post

The pro-busing side, the case they were trying to make, was much more complicated.

From Slate

In 1975, briefly interrupting an eight-year period of work and study in Mexico, he weighed in with the pro-busing factions in Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ended up writing a pro-busing opinion in the North Carolina case then pending.

From Time Magazine Archive