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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this whole 6 region proposal is designed around getting students shorter bus rides, right?  Do we know if that is actually likely to happen, though?  How long are CES bus rides usually (should presumably be a little shorter than regional programs since there are more than 6 CESes)?  What about the regional IBs, or any other regional programs that serve a handful of high schools?   How does that compare to the bus times to get to countywide or half-county programs?  Is it a big improvement or not really?

(Just curious because while I know the middle school magnets are not regional, we live less than 10 minutes from one of them so would potentially be sent to it if it became regional, yet apparently my child would need to leave the house at 7 and get on a bus around 7:10-7:15 in order to get to a middle school magnet 3 miles away that starts at 8:15.  Is this kind of thing common and would we expect to see things like this for the new HS regional programs too, in which case there will still be tons of people turning it down because the commute is too much?  Or are we an outlier and most kids taking a bus to a nearby school that's not their home school have a reasonable bus ride?)[/quote]

You can look at bus routes for the schools within the DCC to give you some indication of how long bus rides can get presently.  I think one in the DCC is like 75 minutes from first pick-up to drop off at the school.

But otherwise, no one seems to have done a transportation study to investigate how long bus rides would be.  The same is true for the boundary studies, which also neglect any information on bus ride length or time.[/quote]

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