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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New York City was spending $105M on yellow school buses way back in 2000 - and an additional $57 M on discounted MTA cards for students. So yeah, it's expensive.

http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/schoolbus.pdf[/quote]

And dc has how many more.students than NYC? Oh, right. Dc doesn't have more students.

Dc lights money on fire and burns it for warmth for its school budgets. I'm merely suggesting they funnel some.of the money to.slmething that would help kids get to school. The absentee rates I've seen at both dcps and dc charters all speak to a population of kids who have real trouble getting to school when the weather is bad, or when their transit options fail. You can snark about overweight kids all you want; and I'm sure you will because that's the kind of horrible snob you are... (Meanwhile, driving your own kids to school in your Tahoe), but this is just about equal access, which we don't have.[/quote]

I'm still waiting for you to give an example of a street address/block where the neighborhood school is not walkable and their is no wmata option to make up for it.[/quote]

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