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Parents, board hear pleas to preserve St. Marys bus service as district weighs charging families or ending routes
Summary
Public commenters urged the Sycamore School Board to keep a long-running bus route for St. Mary families after the district floated charging families or canceling service. Board members said state mileage-reimbursement cuts and rising costs are driving the review; no formal change was approved at the meeting.
Members of the public urged the Sycamore Community Unit School District Board of Education on Monday to preserve a bus service that has transported St. Mary students to school for more than four decades. Parent Micah Morton, who said he lives downtown and works at Northern Illinois University, told the board the district has provided the route at no charge for over 45 years and that "30 Saint Mary students rely on the bus service each day." He said 189 St. Mary students live inside the district and that 125 of those families directly pay local property…
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