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SFUSD proposes to cut five yellow buses, reshape routes and notify families before enrollment fair
Summary
District staff presented a plan to reduce the general-education yellow-bus fleet from 30 to 25 buses for 2013—2014, proposing cuts of specific elementary and middle-school routes and promising targeted outreach, school-by-school data and multilingual notices to affected families before the Nov. 3 enrollment fair.
SAN FRANCISCO — District staff told the Board of Education on Oct. 23 that the San Francisco Unified School District must shrink its general-education yellow-bus fleet by five vehicles to align transportation costs with available funding and reimbursement.
"We need to reduce the fleet by 5 buses from 30 buses to 25 in the twelve-thirteen in the thirteen-fourteen school year," Executive Director Orla O'Keefe said during a presentation laying out budget drivers, feeder alignment and next steps. She said the change is driven by limited state categorical and Title I funds and some DCYF support.
Why it matters: staff and several board members framed the cuts as a tradeoff between keeping…
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