As the school buses rolled up Thursday at the Ellis Elementary School in Roxbury, Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Superintendent Carol R. Johnson were watching closely.
Boston public schools struggled with bus tardiness last year, and officials redesigned the transportation routes for this year to give drivers more time.
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Parents have already reported late buses. More confusion in the afternoon about bus assignments for the return trip. Not an auspicious beginning!
Matt Wilder said "more parents were sending their children to kindergarten in the district this school year."
So how many of those 300 Kindergarten students without a school have been placed in one? How much time are they spending on the bus to get to school?
The Boston Public Schools is paid for with tax dollars, given last years busing fiasco, the on-time statistics for school buses is public information and should have been provided in real-time from day 1! Any "hiccups" should have been corrected before school started, there was plenty of time! Next week I expect to see the daily on-time statistics from the start of the school year.