Did busing for school desegregation succeed? Here’s what research says [chalkbeat.org]
By Matt Barnum, ChalkBeat, July 1, 2019. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have catapulted a long-running debate about “busing” and school integration back into the news. Harris’ criticism of fellow Democratic presidential candidate Biden for his vigorous opposition to court-ordered desegregation in the 1970s has also sparked fresh debate about whether those efforts were successful. What do we know? In the most basic sense, they did succeed. School segregation dropped substantially as courts and...