Example sentences for: busing

How can you use “busing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The LAT and the NYT front a ruling by a North Carolina judge that declares the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district officially desegregated, thereby ending the thirty-year old busing program designed to reduce segregation.

  • Since the mid-1970s, magnet schools-- specialized or especially high-quality schools designed to draw students voluntarily from a wide geographical area--have been an increasingly popular way to desegregate school systems without resorting to mandatory busing.

  • The legal basis for court-ordered busing and other measures is that government officials have purposely acted to keep the schools segregated.

  • Charlotte's whites could flee to private schools (and some did), but because the county had consolidated its school system in 1960 the outlying areas as well as the inner cities were embraced in the busing blueprint.

  • But the school board, split between busing supporters and foes, continued to produce half-hearted integration plans that McMillan had to dismiss as not "in good faith," and busing continued according to the court's prescription.


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