busing
noun
bus·ing
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variants:
or less commonly bussing
Definition of busing
: the act of transporting by bus
specifically
: the transporting of children to a school outside their residential area as a means of achieving racial balance in that school
Examples of busing in a Sentence
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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, "Lakewood’s remarkable recovery in home sale prices, a Cuyahoga County leader," 20 Aug. 2019 Amid skepticism, two MIT doctoral students won a contest with an algorithm to improve busing. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "How an Algorithm Made the Buses in Boston Better," 13 Aug. 2019 That's when California Sen. Kamala Harris challenged his 1970s-era stand on school busing. — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, "In this week's Democratic presidential debates, is it make or break for Beto O'Rourke, Julián Castro?," 29 July 2019 Districts could still voluntarily bus - but busing was so unpopular and politically untenable in 1974 that few attempted it in any serious manner. — Jon Hale, The Conversation, "The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated," 24 July 2019 Locally, First Student provides busing services to special-education students in the Burbank and Glendale unified school districts, along with Clark Magnet High School in La Crescenta. — Andrew J. Campa, Burbank Leader, "School bus company stresses safety first at demonstration in Burbank," 20 Aug. 2019 Today’s edition explores shifting attitudes on gun control, the human toll of climate change, a rare moment of unity in Brazil around pension reform, the efficacy of busing in education, and the thorny nature of emotional support animals. — The Christian Science Monitor, "The green grass grows all around," 9 Aug. 2019 He had been particularly savaged in the previous debate by Kamala Harris, a California senator who had rebuked his warm recollections of segregationist senators, along with his one-time opposition to mandatory school busing. — I.k. | Washington, The Economist, "Joe Biden comes under fire in the second Democratic debate," 1 Aug. 2019 In other words, the justices in the majority – most of them appointed by President Richard Nixon – found that the suburbs should not be subject to busing. — Jon Hale, The Conversation, "The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'busing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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busing
noun
English Language Learners Definition of busing
US
: the act or practice of bringing children by buses to a school that is far from the area where they live so that the school will have many children of different races
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busing
noun
bus·ing
variants:
or bussing \ ˈbə-siŋ
\
\
Legal Definition of busing
: the act of transporting by bus
especially
: the transporting of children to a school outside their neighborhood in order to establish a racial balance at that school