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Families, principals and bus contractors warn against cutting Hamilton County magnet transportation
Summary
Students, parents, principals and a private bus contractor told the school board that eliminating magnet bus service would reduce access, create safety problems and threaten contractors’ businesses; a contractor said buses purchased recently cost six figures each.
Parents, students, principals and a private contractor told the Hamilton County Board of Education at the April 28 work session that magnet transportation is essential to access, equity and student safety and should not be cut as the district weighs budget savings.
Lauren Sloan, a parent with three children in magnet schools, told the board that magnet transportation “is not a luxury, it's an essential. It protects students' safety, it enables real choice, and it prevents our schools from resegregating…
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