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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at a meeting with Barbara Kanninen and she said there wasn’t a penny to add to any more buses. She said it would not happen. Walkability is their number one priority.

It was very clear to me she was not concerned about diversity.[/quote]

She's never been interested in diversity, let alone concerned about it.  Transportation budget is yet another convenient argument for her and the SB to do nothing about the gross economic disparities.[/quote]

Diversity is not the schools job [/quote]

It turns out their plans to "increase" walkers didn't actually do that or save any money (from the mouth of another SB member), so the only point then would be furthering segregation. Certainly they have some tools in their tool box to fight back against county policies that have led to highly segregated neighborhood schools. They need to use those tools rather than throw their hands in the air and feign ignorant. They have yet to demonstrate that some of those tools they have not yet employed would be more costly. Segregation has a cost, too, it's just hidden because the cost is to the kids in the segregated schools. [/quote]

There was never an expectation that APS would be able to reduce the transportation budget, their goal was to try to hold it steady rather than continue the dramatic increases we’ve seen the past several years.[/quote]

They can't hold it steady either, because enrollment continues to rise. There is no scenario they were looking at that made the transportation issue better, or even held the cost steady. That's the point. Unless people with kids stop moving in, they are stuck with the numbers and they are stuck spending more on transportation because a lot of our neighborhoods are not and never will be safely walkable to any existing ES. Too many uncrossable roads.

I think [b]larger class sizes for low poverty schools sounds equitable. [/b] And maybe that would even prove an incentive for MC families to choose certain schools that they currently avoid. [/quote]

To be more precise, if they raise class sizes to help solve some budget problems, which seems increasingly likely in coming years, the Title 1 schools' class sizes should be frozen, while only lower poverty schools would go up by one or two students.[/quote]

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