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Policy committee asks staff to model impacts of shortening student walk-distance eligibility for district busing
Summary
Committee asked administration to keep 4K at a half-mile walk standard for next year, and to model how changing K–4 (or K–5 in future) eligibility to one mile or 1.25 miles would affect ridership and costs; committee also reiterated 2-mile statutory eligibility for older grades and hazardous-route provisions.
The West Bend Joint School District No. 1 policy committee directed staff on Feb. 25 to model the student and financial impacts of shortening the district’s walk-distance eligibility for bus transportation and to keep 4K eligibility at the current half-mile standard for the coming year.
Superintendent Dr. Wimmer summarized the options and said the district will ask the bus contractor to provide scenarios illustrating how many students would gain or lose eligibility and the associated cost implications. "What we would set it at a 1 or a 1.25 ... how…
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