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Tehachapi Unified officials discuss proposal to expand middle-school walking radius for bus eligibility
Summary
District staff proposed increasing the middle-school walking-distance for free home-to-school transportation from 1 mile to 2 miles to address a wait list in Golden Hills. Board members asked for route-level ridership data and raised concerns about sixth graders and safety; no vote was taken.
Tehachapi Unified School District staff presented an informational proposal on Feb. 11 to expand the middle-school walking distance used to determine free home-to-school transportation eligibility from 1 mile to 2 miles.
District staff said the change is intended to reduce a persistent wait list for secondary riders in the Golden Hills area. Transportation supervisor Denise Berry told the board that the district’s existing distances are 3/4 mile for elementary (K–5), 1 mile for middle school, and 2 miles for high school, and that increasing the middle-school radius would shift the western boundary roughly to Tucker Road.
The proposal is an…
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