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Waunakee policy committee considers eliminating elementary shuttles, reallocating three middle/high routes
Summary
District administrators proposed keeping an approved hazardous-transportation plan that would remove three 5–12 routes, eliminate elementary shuttles and create two routes per elementary to avoid student transfers; staff recommended a staged rollout with summer-school routing sent to tonight's board meeting.
Steve, speaking for district administration, outlined a plan to keep an "unusually hazardous transportation plan" already approved by the board and to reconfigure elementary routing so shuttles between schools would end and each elementary would instead operate two dedicated routes — a shorter in-town route and a longer route outside the village. "We're not looking for a decision today," Steve said, but he asked the committee for direction and to forward summer-school routing to the full board.
Why it matters: staff said implementing the hazardous-transportation plan would eliminate bus transportation for 251 middle-school students and free three 5–12 routes that could be reallocated to serve K–4 students in longer single-run routes. Administrators argued the change would stop…
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