How to Use busing in a Sentence

busing

noun
  • The report did not include any mass busing plan, as some had feared.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • The current plan would add more busing and longer bus times for students.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Milwaukee is far from alone in struggling with school busing needs.
    — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021
  • 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 poll may understate support for the most common forms of busing.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • There was that whole busing thing, for example, and also reversible lanes.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2017
  • The busing was the most pointed of a slew of measures announced Wednesday.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Some ideas, like reducing busing, have already been taken off the table.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
  • The classic case of this is Boston school busing back in the 1970s.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Plans for schools in the same situation usually begin with cuts to school busing.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 24 July 2023
  • An alcove that formerly was a busing station is now The Nook.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then came busing, and white flight, and Proposition 13, which shredded state revenue.
    — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 12 June 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
  • Some areas that saw the fiercest resistance to busing are now among the most diversifying in Louisville.
    — Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Outside of the Catholic system, a few new private schools opened in Louisville that first year of busing, and even more opened the following year.
    — Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The district eventually restored busing for students at six magnet schools in March.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was a violent reaction to busing in places like Boston in the 1970s.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Judge Potter was a neighbor who ruled to desegregate school busing in the 1970s.
    — Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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