San Diego
For the first time, San Diego youngsters who are voluntarily bused to schools away from their inner-city neighborhoods will be followed by the same level of federal and state money that could be used to boost their achievement if they stayed in the schools in their low-income neighborhoods.
City schools trustees voted Tuesday to give the 50 schools to which the 4,377 students are bused as much as $422 a student, the same as neighborhood schools receive for the students from low-income families who qualify for the special money.
The estimated $862,000 cost will come from an increase in federal money that the district received for the program this year.
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