Mr. Watson wants the group to continue its support of mandatory busing to achieve school integration.
This study found that mandatory busing was required to attain racial balance in every school.
The latest version would allow some mandatory busing if elementary schools showed signs of significant resegregation.
But even here, the era of mandatory busing is coming to an end.
But there is widespread doubt whether parents will accept a return to mandatory busing once the district moves away from it.
After mandatory busing was instituted in the 1970's, many residents sent their children to private schools.
But the era when courts were willing to force integration through mandatory busing ended in the mid-1990's.
By the 1990s, most areas of the country have been released from mandatory busing.
Today, there is no mandatory busing for her granddaughter.
Over the years, some have turned to mandatory busing and other prom-related restrictions.