How to Use busing in a Sentence

busing

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  • The classic case of this is Boston school busing back in the 1970s.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The cost of the project includes construction and busing.
    — Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
  • More from Morning Mix: Biden takes flak on race and busing.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
  • 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
  • About half of Palacios’s first-graders at the time were white, and many of their parents weren’t happy about the new busing arrangement.
    — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018
  • Mestek said the union is now looking for more information on busing and school start times.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • There was a violent reaction to busing in places like Boston in the 1970s.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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 busing of thousands of black and white Boston students to equalize the racial mixes in the schools led to racial turmoil and death threats against Judge Garrity.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • There’s a reason even the most left-wing Democrats don’t tend to emphasize the need to integrate public schools through busing anymore.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 July 2018
  • There was that whole busing thing, for example, and also reversible lanes.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2017
  • Then came busing, and white flight, and Proposition 13, which shredded state revenue.
    — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • In the vote, the board approved a price range for busing, with the final number set to depend on several details that at the time had not been finalized.
    — Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • Students at two schools, Central High and Western High, will continue to receive busing.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The relentless surge has led to a hodgepodge response in Mexico ranging from shutting down railways heading north to the busing of people to areas with fewer migrants.
    — James Fredrick, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023

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