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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Martiriano announces retirement today.  [/quote]

Why did he quit in the middle of the school year? Because of the bus issues?[/quote]

The bus issues, the changing school start times that were done without looking at the schools themselves and the fact that as problems arose, he was slow and ineffective to respond. His director of transportation resigned and Martirano was still not able to fix problems.  Three weeks into the school year, there were still kids who had no buses and parents had to bring their kids to school late.  It's now second quarter and our school is still not enforcing late policy for first period because some buses are still not able to consistently get kids to school before school starts.

His new plans have cost the school district a lot of money and created more problems and still have not offered several of the options that he touted as the reason to hire this company out of state (like the bus tracker and green fuel buses).  We didn't have enough buses and drivers and I still see some unlabeled buses that are driving through our neighborhood every day.  Those unlabeled buses are ones that had to be rented after the fact because the out-of-state bus company did not (and do not) have enough buses.  And we are paying extra for the extra bus rentals.  So, in addition to the massive failure of the bus company and the fact that the school district is not holding the contractor responsible, the county is paying for the extra buses.  This has been a huge money sink with much poorer service than the MD based company that was replaced.

Martirano has had no good answer for the last 2 months and finally realized that he needs to retire before he is fired.  He would never have made it through this school year based on the disastrous last 5 months.[/quote]

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