Date: July 24, 1979
Subject: School Busing Amendment
Description: Passage of the joint resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit compelling students to attend a school other than the one nearest their home to achieve racial desegregation. Busing, as a means of achieving racial desegregation and improving the quality of education, has proved to be a wasteful and unproductive exercise.
Result: Bill Defeated, 208-216
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