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Students and parents urge board to restore spring busing for high school crew
Summary
High school rowers and parents told the Egg Harbor Township board that spring-season transportation cuts force families to provide costly travel, create safety concerns on busy roadways, and limit equitable access to a scholarship-producing sport; district staff said a transportation review and a proposal are in progress.
Students, parents and community members used the board’s public comment period to press the Egg Harbor Township Board of Education to restore full spring-season busing for the high school crew team.
Rocka Ricardi, a high school crew team member, told the board the current arrangement provides a bus only for the first month of spring and then ends on April 1. “Many of our students rely on their parents to drive them to and from practice…a lot of our team’s parents have prior obligations such as work,” Ricardi said, asking the board to provide…
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