Program busing inner-city minority students to suburban schools could be cut from state budget

Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 biennial budget proposes the elimination of an integration program that currently buses over a thousand minority students from Milwaukee to white majority public schools in the city’s suburbs. The Chapter 220 integration program — which started in the 1970s to promote diversity in Wisconsin’s public schools — gives white students the option … Continue reading Program busing inner-city minority students to suburban schools could be cut from state budget