What's happening
This bill allows Syracuse city schools to run a five-year pilot program providing expanded transportation for K-5 students living over one mile from their schools.
Why it matters
Addresses safety and equity by allowing transportation for students living just under one mile from their schools if there are safety concerns, potentially helping vulnerable children who face hazardous walking routes.
Could improve student attendance and academic performance by making it easier for young children in K-5 to consistently get to school, particularly those who previously faced transportation barriers.
Mandates a thorough cost-benefit and impact analysis report after four years, meaning policymakers and the public will get concrete data on whether expanded transportation leads to measurable benefits and how it affects district and state budgets.
Sets a precedent for other districts by piloting a flexible transportation policy in an urban district, potentially informing broader statewide or national reforms if the outcomes are positive.
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Expand Syracuse School Busing
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Expand Syracuse School Busing
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Rachel May
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1840
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the city school district of the city of Syracuse
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
h. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the city school district of the city of Syracuse, pursuant to adoption of a resolution by the board of education setting forth a plan, may enter into a pilot program not to exceed five school years beginning in the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year to provide transportation services for children residing within the district attending kindergarten through grade five who live one mile or more from the school they legally attend. Such transportation shall be restricted to transportation to and from children's homes or before or after-school child care locations and, if offered, shall be provided for each student up to a distance of fifteen miles, provided, however that the board of education of the city school district may approve transportation for children who live within one mile from the school they legally attend if such transportation is necessary due to safety concerns. Transportation pursuant to this paragraph shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances residing in the district. For the purpose of computing approved transportation expenses for transportation aid, expenses for transportation provided pursuant to this paragraph shall be included. The city school district of the city of Syracuse shall provide a report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate and the commissioner on the results of the first four years of the pilot program, including the cost and benefit analysis of increased or decreased costs for the city school
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01942-01-9
A. 1840 2
district and the state, and the impact on student attendance and academic performance of the school district, on or before September thirteenth, two thousand twenty-three.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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