Achieving racial balance through forced busing was a major challenge in school desegregation in Boston.
One of the major challenges in school desegregation in Boston was achieving racial balance in neighborhood schools.
Many cities, including Boston, were racially segregated, and voluntary plans for racial integration did not effectively achieve balance.
As a result, urban school districts began reassigning children from minority neighborhoods to districts with a white majority, and vice versa. This led to the controversial practice of forced busing, where white students from the suburbs were sent to inner city schools, and predominantly African American students were sent to suburban schools.