Board committee hears plan to realign yellow-bus service; staff forecasts phased reductions and targeted outreach

District staff presented a plan to realign general-education yellow-bus services and begin phasing out some routes over three years, telling a San Francisco Board of Education committee that the district will use school-level data and direct outreach to notify families.

Miss O'Keefe, the staff presenter, said the district collected class rosters from schools to identify who rides buses and has responses from 49 schools covering about 2,800 of an estimated 3,300 yellow-bus riders. She described pin-map analyses showing where morning-only, afternoon-only and morning-and-afternoon riders live and said the information will guide route design and communications to families.

"This is an unpleasant situation where, because of a budget crisis, we need to cut services," Miss O'Keefe said, adding that the changes are intended to align transportation infrastructure with the board's…