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Out of curiosity, I checked into the most recent school busing decisions in the circuit courts, just to see what they look like.
There aren't many of these anymore. They usually take the form of localities trying to get out from under decades-old desegregation orders.
There aren't many of these anymore. They usually take the form of localities trying to get out from under decades-old desegregation orders.
The most recent is from the 11th Cir. A mostly white Alabama city tried to secede from a county-wide school district that had been created by a desegregation order. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…
Some city residents organized, first on Facebook, and, fascinatingly, the evidence from the Facebook posts of residents' racial animus was imputed to the secession decision ultimately made by city officials. 
And those same Facebook posts were used treat the claims by the city to merely be seeking improved test scores and smaller class sizes as pretextual.
