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Round Lake board approves hazard finding, addresses transportation service, software conversion errors
Summary
The Round Lake Area Board of Education approved a serious safety-hazard finding form for the John T. McGee attendance boundary and discussed ongoing transportation service complaints, communication failures and software-conversion errors that affected walker/transportation eligibility.
The Round Lake Area Board of Education on Oct. 6 approved a serious safety-hazard finding form to restore transportation eligibility for part of the John T. McGee attendance area and heard public and board discussion about recurring transportation service problems and a software conversion that removed some walker-boundary designations.
The action followed public comment from Tricia Snyder, a district parent, who said “The transportation department is notoriously hard to reach” and described an unresolved September 16 bus incident involving her 7-year-old. Deputy Superintendent Heather Bennett told the board families should escalate to her if they are not getting timely responses and said the district will present additional information at the next board meeting.
Why it matters: the board voted to submit the hazard form to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), which the district expects to rule on…
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