Where I live they do "busing" to make our schools equal. My friend who lives down the street is white, & her DH is black. We live across the street from a school, mostly white area & school. About 8 years ago when she went to enroll her kids, she went to the district office and didn't think when doing the forms. She left the box blank, they checked white for her. Her kids were placed in a school about 10 miles from the house. I told her to go back and tell them her kids were black and she would get something closer to the house. She did and they refused to change it because "she" was white. She had to have her DH go with her to prove that she was telling them the truth. The kids "box" was changed to "black". While they didn't get the school across from us, they did get one 2 miles away.. amazing what a little check in the box can do.. now if they remained as white, there was no room in that school for them, but as black there was..
Now our schools are mostly racially balanced and we really don't need the busing anymore but the district still does it. ... and that is another reason why here in Lee County, they want you to check the box... they even go as far as white girl or boy, black girl or boy, hispanic girl or boy seats in the school.. they don't worry as much about "other" they get placed where ever there are seats, but the main three, they do watch.