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Subcommittee refines 'walker and rider' language but keeps practice on student busing
Summary
The subcommittee reviewed non-substantive language revisions to the district's walker-and-rider transportation policy to clarify eligibility for students assigned outside their neighborhood school, procedures for specialized transportation and family notification timelines; members asked staff to add written hardship criteria and clear deadlines.
The Fall River School Committee Policy Subcommittee on July 22 considered language-only revisions to the district’s walker-and-rider transportation policy intended to align the written rule with current practice, particularly where students are assigned to schools outside their neighborhood. At the meeting staff described the draft changes as mostly editorial: updating definitions to make clear that eligibility follows the assigned school (not only the neighborhood school), replacing ambiguous terms with DESE-preferred language such as “specialized…
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