How to Use busing in a Sentence

busing

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  • The current plan would add more busing and longer bus times for students.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The report did not include any mass busing plan, as some had feared.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • The busing was the most pointed of a slew of measures announced Wednesday.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Only mandated busing in the 1960s opened up schools in the northeast of the city that were closed to Black people.
    — Douglas Haynes, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Abbott said the addition of new cities to his migrant busing list does not mean New York is in the clear.
    — Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The poll may understate support for the most common forms of busing.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The ’76 campaign played out as debates over busing and fair housing roiled neighborhoods in the North.
    — Steve Kornacki, NBC News, 29 July 2019
  • An alcove that formerly was a busing station is now The Nook.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In many instances, families can choose to send their student to a school on the other side of the county and receive free busing to do so.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Courts have, in the past, mandated busing of students to integrate schools, but there has been backlash to that.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The schools, all either new or refurbished in recent years, are close enough to homes that there is no school busing to even the primary schools.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Milwaukee is far from alone in struggling with school busing needs.
    — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021
  • This sets up a sequel to the tense confrontation between Biden and Harris on busing and civil rights from the first debate.
    — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 31 July 2019
  • In 2021, when a bus driver shortage upended MPS busing, Rae had to rely on friends with cars to pick her son up.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Witness 1970s busing in neighboring Prince George’s County as a proof of this.
    — baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The topic will likely come up again this week as Detroit has a long and complex history of busing (and Harris and Biden will share the stage again).
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 30 July 2019
  • Arizona's busing effort, meanwhile, has cost over $4 million, the state spokesman said.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • If funding for school busing drops below that threshold, the voucher program would be canceled for that year.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • City officials said that they had been warned by the federal government to expect the busing of migrants from the southern border in Texas to the city to restart.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Plans for schools in the same situation usually begin with cuts to school busing.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 24 July 2023
  • The mandatory busing of schoolchildren, ordered to achieve racial balance in the schools, convulsed and polarized the city.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • But in this award-winning photo, the flag wasn't unfurled, but unleashed as a lance against a Black man by enraged white youths protesting Boston's busing plan.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The recent kerfuffle over busing and public schools is a good reminder of the potential tension.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • They were armed with weapons and live ammunition, but state Adjutant Gen. Richard Frymire cautioned them about the volatile emotions stirred by school busing.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2020
  • Years later, their paths cross again, having landed on opposite sides of the track in an upstate New York town – and on opposing sides of school busing protests.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Third, Harris surged immediately after the June debate, in the wake of her exchange with Biden on busing.
    — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 31 July 2019
  • White flight reinforced the perception that busing was a mistake.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
  • In the 1970s, Biden was a staunch opponent of mandatory busing as a method of school desegregation.
    — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • The school district has, as far back as the 1960s, made efforts to racially integrate its schools — including using busing.
    — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • But within days, her own views on busing became somewhat muddled.
    — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2019

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