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Parent asks school committee to restore elementary busing, cites safety and childcare impacts

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A Swampscott parent urged the school committee at the May 8 meeting to increase elementary school bus availability after families learned some students who previously received service would not have it next year; the parent cited Paradise Road crash data and the effect on working parents.

A Swampscott parent urged the school committee on May 8 to restore or expand elementary school bus service after recent district notices told some families they would not receive busing next year.

Rachel Terrace of Middlesex Avenue told the committee that, for the first year of the new elementary school, the district had offered buses for families living 1.6 miles or more from the school. She said families…

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