Busing In Public Schools

• Racial integration is a worthy goal, and busing is an easy means to achieving that goal.
Busing is a plan for promoting school desegregation, by which minority students are transported to largely white schools and white students are brought to largely minority schools. It is intended to safeguard the Civil Rights of students and to provide equal opportunity in public education. Busing is also an example of affirmative action that is, the attempt to undo or compensate for the effects of past discrimination. Such action is sometimes called compensatory justice.
In many instances, neighborhood schools remain the default option, meaning that students have a right to attend their neighborhood school. Race is taken into account only when students
Each of these authors finds that, on average, an increasing proportion of racial minority students in public schools is associated with a higher proportion of Whites attending private schools. However, these nationwide studies of metro areas may be exaggerating the contemporary prevalence of patterns of white flight because they focus on flight from the central city to the suburbs. An overlooked part of the ‘white flight’ narrative is flight from integrating suburban school districts. With increasing percentages of the population living in suburban areas, it is essential that researchers focus on the variation between suburbs, rather than just the central city/suburb divide. Another issue is that existing research on white flight has too broadly defined white flight as geographical flight from a certain school district. In contrast, this paper uses a unique methodology of focusing on Whites’ decision to enroll or not enroll in the local public school. One other problem is that in estimating white flight, the literature has neglected religious identification as a potential explanatory variable. Since many of the private schools are in fact religious schools, this is a major