Q&A
Transportation services for students in foster care
1:50:04
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about transportation services for students in foster care. Glenn Risbrook provides statistics and information about the request process and service provision.
- 1,371 students in foster care submitted applications for busing in the 2023-2024 school year
- 739 students received bus service; the difference is due to duplications and ineligible requests
- If busing cannot be established within 10 days of receiving a request, rideshare is automatically provisioned
- The department does not track data on requests withdrawn due to students changing schools or foster homes while waiting for bus service
Rita Joseph
1:50:04
Okay.
1:50:05
How many students in foster care requested bus service student exception process during the 2023, 2024 school year?
Glenn Risbrook
1:50:20
We received 800 and actually 1371 students submitted applications for for busing.
Rita Joseph
1:50:31
And how many how many students in foster care receive bus service do the request?
Glenn Risbrook
1:50:35
739.
1:50:37
The difference is that we received duplications and we also received requests for students that were not eligible.
Rita Joseph
1:50:42
And how many did not receive?
Glenn Risbrook
1:50:46
Every every student that that submitted for busing for force of care receive busing or or rideshare if if logistics or something prevented busing to be either or?
Rita Joseph
1:50:56
Okay.
1:50:57
So what's the average weight average length of time it took from submissions to exception request to start of us for students and foster care?
Glenn Risbrook
1:51:07
Well, the policy that we have in place that with the agreement we have with the ACS is that if busing cannot be established within 10 days of of receiving it, then rideshare would be automatically provisioned to the student.
1:51:23
And up until the time that busing can be obtain.
Rita Joseph
1:51:32
So how many requests for busting in 2023, 2024?
1:51:35
School year were withdrawn because the student had to change school or foster homes while waiting for bus service to stop.
Glenn Risbrook
1:51:40
Unfortunately, Chad, we we don't track that data.
Rita Joseph
1:51:42
You don't track that information?
1:51:44
Okay.
1:51:44
And how many students applied for a busing to foster care exception request for the 2024 2025 school year, and they are still waiting.
Glenn Risbrook
1:51:54
Well, again, with the same time frame in mind, if it's not if they don't have busing within 10 days, they will be allocated right share.
1:52:02
We are still assessing the data as this this And
Rita Joseph
1:52:05
then and you will share with me once certainly you'll have it.
