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Work group finds school district lacks race-linked bus-duration report, defers KPI 8.8 vote
Summary
At its Feb. 4, 2026, NAACP–SDIRC work group meeting, members pressed the school district for bus-ride duration data broken down by race to assess KPI 8.8 (non-discriminatory student transportation). District staff said duration and ridership data exist in separate systems and will follow up; the group deferred a vote and requested a joined dataset or research brief.
Vero Beach-area NAACP and school-district work group members said Feb. 4 that the school district does not currently produce a single report showing how long students ride buses by race, complicating their assessment of KPI 8.8, which asks whether daily student transportation is nondiscriminatory.
"We have the duration by route and tier for every stop," said Dr. Shafty, who summarized the district's response and exhibits. "We have all of the exhibits by school location, by school location, race, count of students using choice, and percentage of students using choice transportation and zone transportation." He said the district follows routing guidance and that some exhibits overlap; he added that the particular duration-by-race query the group sought is not available as a single, joined dataset.
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