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School committee reviews transportation analysis that could change bell times to cut bus costs
Summary
Administration presented a bus-efficiency study showing overlapping routes and underfilled buses; a three-tier bell schedule could reduce 6–8 buses and yield up to $500,000 in potential annual savings, though any change would require stakeholder notice and further data work.
The Coventry School Committee heard a detailed transportation-efficiency briefing on May 7 that proposed adjusting school start and end times to create three discrete bus tiers and reduce overlapping routes.
Superintendent Don Cowart summarized an analysis produced through Department of Education funds and described how current bell times create overlap between high-school, middle-school and elementary runs. Cowart said the present pattern often has buses running well under capacity and that overlaps force…
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