Cutting Buses * USA - SFUSD mulls ones
School buses will be cut by 57 percent during the next three years
San Francisco,CAL,USA -The San Francisco Examiner, by Andrea Koskey -October 15, 2010: ... if a proposed cost-saving transportation policy is adopted by the San Francisco Unified School District... The proposed changes include reducing service to roughly 900 children, reducing the district’s bus fleet to 25 and eliminating transportation for 950 students to after-school programs... Buses would continue to provide service to students living in low test-score areas and bring them to language-immersion and K-8 schools. They would also still provide service to racially isolated schools to create diversity and bring students from high-density areas of The City to lower-density areas, district officials said... Though cuts to specific bus routes and stops were not revealed Wednesday, Board of Education Commissioner Rachel Norton said she was not comfortable supporting a proposal that abandoned families who did not participate in the district’s after-school programs... It costs the district roughly $100,000 to operate one bus, according to Assistant Superintendent Myong Leigh. The district spends roughly $6.3 million on general-education transportation. Changes would reflect the new student assignment system, adopted in March, and be phased in over the next three years... (SF Examiner File Photo - Busing kids: The San Francisco Unified School District spends $6.3 million a year on transportation for general-education students)
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