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Parents raise safety concerns after bus-routing and app failures; superintendent points to two-mile statute and hazardous-walking process
Summary
Parents said new bus-tracking app failed on the first day of school, leaving students without clear bus numbers for long waits; superintendent reminded the audience of the two-mile statutory threshold and the hazardous-walking evaluation and courtesy-rider process.
Multiple parents told the Clay County School Board on Sept. 4 that recent transportation changes and technology problems left students waiting without clear bus information and asked the district to restore service in some neighborhoods.
Parent Adam Warren described repeated failures of the district's Chipmunk bus-tracking app after the district moved away from the previous Here Comes the Bus system. He blamed the new system for students and parents not receiving robo calls, inaccurate bus tracking and one instance when a…
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