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Community groups and SEIU demand full safe‑passage funding and higher standards for bus vendors
Summary
Advocates for the Safe Passage program and SEIU Local 73 officials urged the Chicago Board of Education to protect and fully fund Safe Passage staff and to set stronger requirements for transportation vendors, including functioning air conditioning and heating on buses used by students.
Speakers during public participation on April 24 urged the Chicago Board of Education to preserve and expand the Safe Passage program and to raise standards for private transportation vendors whose contracts are expiring.
SEIU Local 73: Tremaine Reeves, director of the CPS division of SEIU Local 73, told the board that a number of transportation vendor contracts will expire this summer and urged the board to require vendors to provide functioning air conditioning and heat on school buses at all times. Reeves said…
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