Kamala Harris could benefit by making school desegregation an issue again without excessive emphasis on a much-misunderstood method for achieving it. ed_kilgore writes
Denver children board a bus to travel to a non-neighborhood school in compliance with a court-order desegregation plan in 1969. Photo: Bill Wunsch/Denver Post via Getty Images When Kamala Harris upbraided Joe Biden in last week’s Democratic presidential debate for his history of anti-busing activism back in the day, it electrified audiences and made her the clear winner of the evening.
Harris’s contention that schools are no more integrated than they were when she was bused in the late 1960s is well-founded, though its accuracy depends on how you measure segregation . And the research literature continues to show that minority kids benefit from attending racially and economically integrated schools, sometimes quite significantly.
In recent years, advocates for equal educational opportunity shifted to other strategies, most notably in the administration of the first African-American president, as this 2010 assessment noted: So perhaps it is time for something new. And there have been renewed efforts to look at either radical rezoning of school districts to counteract residential segregation or metro-wide busing that would include charter public schools .
The standard differentiation between “forced” and “voluntary” busing, which Biden still uses, represents another heavily loaded set of terms, particularly when it comes to the federal role in encouraging or even demanding desegregation, says Delmont:
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