Reorganization of School Busing Program Approved
The Los Angeles Unified School District board has voted 6 to 1 to reorganize its program for busing students to relieve overcrowding. About 25,000 students ride buses for up to an hour because there is no room at their local schools.
District staff will try to find ways to improve the program, such as shortening travel time, channeling more money to receiving schools to help new students, and establishing long-term pairings of sending and receiving schools to allow bused students to attend elementary, junior and senior high in one area.
The motion was sponsored by Westside board representative Mark Slavkin. Schools in his area received thousands of new bused-in students last fall.
South-Central Los Angeles representative Rita Walters voted ‘no’, saying the measure focuses too heavily on the needs of receiving schools while ignoring the problems of overcrowded areas.
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