Nine years after the Peoria School Board instituted a policy of busing, regularly matching up students from one Peoria neighborhood to schools in another, the US Commission on Civil Rights produced a twenty-eight page report detailing why \u00a0segregation persisted in Peoria’s school system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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