Almost 50 years after busing became a national issue, the larger problem of improving educational opportunities for all still plagues us, writes Jake Novak.
, adding that had she been in the Senate in the 1970s, she and Biden would have been on opposite sides.Harris is right to point out that busing was an important part in fighting school segregation. With predominantly white schools in white neighborhoods and predominantly black schools in black areas, it was necessary to find some way to get black students to those white schools. Government-funded busing was a logical step in that direction.
But Harris is fundamentally wrong when she makes it sound like desegregation is more than a means to a better end. Supreme Court decision of 1896. Segregation wasn't the point; the point was how segregation denied black children their right to a good education. Busing didn't become a part of Supreme Court-approved policy until the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education decision.
argues that black students bused into predominantly white school districts don't necessarily benefit educationally.
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