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The much-awaited analysis comes after more than two years of community discussion and study, which sparked debate about race, income and fairness — and “long-distance busing” — in suburban, liberal Montgomery County.

The report did not include any mass busing plan, as some had feared.

Many skeptics said they appreciate diversity but oppose busing and want to preserve neighborhood ties and student friendships that are already formed.

Bill Winkler, the owner of Peoria Charter Coach, a busing company in Illinois, said that the business back on its feet after coming to a halt earlier in the pandemic.

There is an onslaught of factors to consider, he said — for one thing, Fairfax must develop new busing protocols, which involve cleaning the buses on both morning and evening routes.

Hell, even the band-aid of busing was enough to spark a huge backlash to civil rights laws.

Full integration, Colby argues, requires far more than policies like busing and affirmative action.

Instead, busing was a failure—conceptually and substantively—because of faulty liberal assumptions.

Rather, a biracial coalition of interests saw busing as one of many tools in the fight for integration.

I have criticized busing myself as liberal overreach and a remedy that was bound to inspire backlash.

This situation was unusual for the Navy although integrated busing had been standard practice in the Army since mid-1944.