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Workgroup flags gaps in school transportation data, raising access concerns
Summary
At an NAACP SDIRC workgroup meeting April 21, district staff acknowledged mismatches between spreadsheets and the public PowerBI dashboard for transportation KPIs (8.9 and 8.10), and agreed to produce a targeted data extract and templates so the group can assess whether after-school bus availability creates barriers for underresourced students.
The NAACP SDIRC workgroup on April 21 pressed district staff over inconsistent data used to measure transportation-related performance indicators, and asked the district to produce clearer exports and templates so the group can determine whether bus availability for after‑school activities is equitable.
The workgroup focused on two indicators. For KPI 8.9 — distance from a student’s home to assigned pickup location — district staff presented a student‑level spreadsheet but acknowledged it differed from a separate routings dataset that counts writership. "If you see a zero, that is the way the system indicates curb to curb or home stops," a district official explained, and added that the files include a column coding program types (A, B, U, Z). Members flagged a discrepancy of roughly 6,200 riders in one extract versus…
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