REMARKS
Impact of transportation issues on vulnerable students
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Council Member Rita Joseph highlights how transportation challenges disproportionately affect vulnerable student populations.
- System failures particularly impact students with disabilities who rely on school buses as their only viable option for attending school
- Students with disabilities may miss out on federally mandated IEP services due to transportation issues
- Students in temporary housing, already facing instability, are further burdened by unreliable transportation
- The creation of new routes for students who receive bus services at the start of the school year is often delayed
Rita Joseph
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Unfortunately, the system continues to fail face delays that this this proportionately affect our most vulnerable students.
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This includes both delays and bus arrivals and delays in creating new routes for students who receive bus services at the start of the school year.
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In particularly, system shortcomings weigh heavily on students with disabilities, many of whom rely on school buses as their only viable option to attend school and receive their federally mandated IEP services.
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Similarly, students in temporary housing.
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Students already facing instability in their housing situation should not have to worry about whether they'll be able to get to school on time if at all.
