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Transportation arrangements for Summer Rising participants
2:43:47
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Council Member Stevens and Deputy Chancellor Vadehra discuss transportation arrangements for Summer Rising participants, focusing on improvements and ongoing challenges.
- Rideshare options are provided for students mandated for transportation, including those with disabilities
- The DOE has improved communication about transportation options to families before applications open
- Thousands of families utilized the rideshare option in the previous year
- A major challenge is bus contracts that don't allow for 6 PM busing over the summer for all students
- The DOE is working on more flexible contracts for the long-term solution
- In the meantime, the rideshare program will be expanded for the upcoming summer
Althea V. Stevens
2:43:47
I'm sorry, Chi.
2:43:48
I have a couple
Nickesha Francis
2:43:49
you gave me a lot.
Althea V. Stevens
2:43:52
And just and just the transportation piece around summarizing, year over year it has gotten better, but you know, how are we preparing for this so to be even better this year?
2:44:02
Because how do we make sure that young people who want to participate in the CBO portion is doing it because that is the piece that most of them like and want to do anyway, and with the buses that has been a huge hindrance.
2:44:13
So what are we doing to try to rectify this this year?
Emma Vadehra
2:44:16
Yes.
2:44:17
So we do think it's improved, and there is always room for improvement on the transportation front.
2:44:20
So as with last year, we will be providing rideshare to students mandated for transportation, including our students with disabilities who are staying later.
2:44:31
We've made that.
2:44:32
We've heard from families, that's great, but I didn't know that when I was applying.
2:44:35
And so we've made sure that's clear before applications open and we are sharing that information out with families.
2:44:41
We know thousands of families took us up on it last year.
2:44:44
The larger challenge, of course, here is our bus contracts, which don't allow us to do 6PM busing over the summer for everyone.
2:44:54
We are in the process of dealing with those contracts now, but the long term solution would be to have more flexible contracts in that way.
2:45:01
In the meantime, we're stepping up the rideshare again this summer.