variants
or less commonly bussing
1
: the act of transporting by bus
2
: the transporting of children to a school outside their residential area as a means of achieving racial balance in that school
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Fairfield City School District School busing will end for thousands of students in Fairfield and Fairfield Township following the defeat of the 6.9-mill operating levy.
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Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
With the busing, migrants are circled around inside Mexican territory in a merry-go-round strategy that forces them to repeatedly pay off immigration agents, kidnappers and smugglers.
—Emily Green, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2024
In other news: Education: Chief Equity Officer John Marshall and Jefferson County Public Schools board member Chris Kolb had a heated exchange after the board meeting on ending magnet school busing.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2024
But Nixon was clearly offering an agenda — a way out of Vietnam, opposing busing, and cracking down on crime, with the hope of picking up the border South.
—Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
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Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
With the busing, migrants are circled around inside Mexican territory in a merry-go-round strategy that forces them to repeatedly pay off immigration agents, kidnappers and smugglers.
—Emily Green, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2024
In other news: Education: Chief Equity Officer John Marshall and Jefferson County Public Schools board member Chris Kolb had a heated exchange after the board meeting on ending magnet school busing.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2024
But Nixon was clearly offering an agenda — a way out of Vietnam, opposing busing, and cracking down on crime, with the hope of picking up the border South.
—Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Busing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busing. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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busing
noun
bus·ing
variants
or bussing
: 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
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