CPS Parents for Buses
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1000's of parents demanding buses be restored, for CPS students w disabilities, and kids in magnet/s.e. DM's open to reporters; we'll connect you with parents.
Joined October 2023
All ten victorious school board candidates support the restoration of busing to magnet and selective enrollment students.
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This is outrageous. And CPS' has the audacity to, yet again, ask for patience, this time after a 5 year old is hospitalized. To any CPS school board member who follows us: what do you plan to do about this? https://t.co/XmWzDIxAM4
chicago.suntimes.com
The mother was told her daughter could only get an air-conditioned bus ride if it was spelled out in legal documents. Chicago Public Schools officials said they are continuing to “work on safely and...
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"My son still doesn��t have a way to get to school in Chicago." https://t.co/WgCsZaCLwF
chicagotribune.com
Chicago must stop treating school transportation like an afterthought and start treating it like the educational lifeline that it is.
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We think CPS may have picked schools for phase 2 busing based on bell times- the below schools all have later starts. Perhaps this is in order to have drivers available after completing an earlier shift transporting students with disabilities.
Below are the list of schools that will, starting Feb 2, receive busing BEASLEY COONLEY ERICSON GREELEY HAWTHORNE INTER-AMERICAN KENWOOD HS LASALLE MORTON MURRAY PERSHING POE PRITZKER PULASKI SABIN SAUCEDO SKINNER WEST SUDER
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Below are the list of schools that will, starting Feb 2, receive busing BEASLEY COONLEY ERICSON GREELEY HAWTHORNE INTER-AMERICAN KENWOOD HS LASALLE MORTON MURRAY PERSHING POE PRITZKER PULASKI SABIN SAUCEDO SKINNER WEST SUDER
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We're hearing from many families who received a good news email from CPS saying that their student will receive busing beginning February 3.
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“The people who had the money and the privilege were able to figure out other situations like rearranging their work schedules,” she said. “People who didn’t, some had to pull their kids out of school.” -parent Erin @APNews describes a solution: @HopSkipDrive. #twill
As responsibility for transportation shifts to families, the question of how to replace the traditional yellow bus has become an urgent problem for some, and a spark for innovation.
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Here's @CPS_CEO_PM remarks about student transporation: https://t.co/5S1pmnpXJT We appreciate that he gave an update. But 300 of 5,500 students transported. That's 5,200 students short. Where's the plan to transport the rest?
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One question answered by @CPS_CEO_PM today at the board meeting. He said CPS is rolling out GenEd transpo based on the "Opportunity Index." Good. Equity-focused. https://t.co/wgdZE19vCd Next: CPS should be transparent about which schools now have busing. Hoping these:
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"With an average of 11 students on a bus, many buses are being sent out 80% empty" - parent Paul addressing CEO Pedro Martinez and COO Charles Mayfield at Chicago School Board meeting today. https://t.co/O0lDkUxv2p
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Q4) Hubs are but one solution. Where's the progress on the others? (Driver Pay /Benefits , transpo providers like hopskipdrive to safely transport more kids, asking SOS for Under the Hood waiver, & transpo dept audit) 5/5
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A member's child w/ disabilities rode a van w/ 2 GenEd students in SYE23. He felt included. Then, when CPS cancelled busing to GenEd kids at magnets last school year, 2 GenEd kids no longer had transpo and 1 kid w disabilities rode alone, no inclusion. Is this fixed CPS? 4/5
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Q3) Do hubs allow for "inclusion"? In other words, are GenEd students on the same bus as students with disabilities, without harming students w disabilities travel times, by picking GenEd students up at a hub as first stop in the morning, last in the evening? 3/5
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Q1) Is the Hub Stop pilot any different at all from the SY22-23 way of transporting GenEd students to magnet/sel enr schools? Q2) Is CPS prioritizing low income families, or schools serving low income families in their hub stop rollout? 2/5
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CPS has recently been touting their "hubs." We've got questions. (And we've asked them of CPS COO Charles Mayfield and have not heard a clear answer.) 1/5
All aboard!🚍 This week, our district launched the Hub Stop Pilot Program to expand transportation for eligible general education students across the district! Hub Stops are centralized pick-up and drop-off locations at select CPS schools, transporting students to and from their
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CPS' failure to bus students to magnet and selective enrollment schools hits those who depend on school buses the most: low income and Black families.
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Thank you so much to @CDRosa @RossanaFor33 @AnthonyJQuezada @ByronSigcho for all your time discussing CPS student transportation with us today. We appreciate your support of finding a way to transport kids w disabilities and low income GenEd students to @ChiPubSchools
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Thank you @CDRosa @35th_Ward for taking time to talk with us today about student transportation! Your energy and ideas are much appreciated!
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"I watched the CPS budget hearing and a CPS Parents for Buses speaker noted that CPS spent $16 million more on busing during 2023-24 despite not providing busing to the students attending magnet & selective enrollment schools???" 3/3
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"Students impacted were from low-income families for whom paying for transportation was a financial burden. CPS wouldn’t offer stipends in lieu of busing." 2/3
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