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[quote=Anonymous]The other wrinkle is that busing has become a huge budget issue in the recent past, both being able to afford to bus kids and, secondarily, being able to attract bus drivers at current salaries. So APS has undertaken a concerted effort to maximize walkability to save on busing costs. This affects APS's ability to integrate schools (economically, though nothing is without a racial component) and also would seem to make it even more important to reconsider the location of option schools. A school with a large walk zone, for example, probably should be a neighborhood school to make all those kids walkers and minimize the buses needed. APS staff appear to have bungled the first attempt at assessing option school location, by not having done a careful analysis that would stand up to the irate parents (mainly Nottingham) at the school being identified as a potential neighborhood-to-option switch.

Thanks to the PPs on Key/ASFS for the straightforward explanations. I follow school issues closely but don't live in those areas, and have always found those issues confounding simply due to the level of venom.[/quote]

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