Wednesday, September 5, 2012
About a dozen parents of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School students requested that the Hatboro-Horsham School District ensure faster routes home for their kids.
Calling lengthy bus rides and transfers to Simmons Elementary School “unacceptable,” parents of parochial students asked the Hatboro-Horsham School Board Tuesday to spend an extra $200,000 to get their kids home quicker. One mom, whose sons attend Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School, said her second-grader has been transferring and enduring lengthy bus rides since kindergarten. Now she worries that her younger child, who is also attending the kindergarten through eighth-grade school in Maple Glen, will get home at 4:20 p.m. too. “It’s not just the transfer,” she said. “It’s a workday for these kids and they’re 8 and 6.” She was not alone. Parent after parent shared similar frustration at their kids’ late return home from school. Our Lady of…
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The district joined several neighboring districts in a transportation consortium, which parents said has led to hour-long commutes for their kids.
After joining a money-saving school busing consortium led to "disastrous" results according to a parent, Hatboro-Horsham School District is taking steps to ensure shorter ride times and fewer delays for non-public school students. Since school started last week, Bob Reichert, the district's director of business affairs, has been evaluating various routes to see which are causing lengthy delays and unnecessarily long rides. Any problematic routes that have not been resolved by the end of this week will be removed from the consortium and service will resume through Hatboro-Horsham’s own transportation department. These in-house routes will become fully operational by no later than Tuesday, the district said in a press release. “During the …
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Five area districts will launch a cost-saving transportation system in the fall.
In an effort to cut costs, the Hatboro-Horsham School Board voted Monday to move forward with a new transportation system for students who are bussed to nonpublic schools. Beginning in the fall, the district will join with five neighboring school districts Lower Moreland, North Penn, Upper Moreland, Upper Dublin and Wissahickon for a cost-sharing transportation consortium, detailed in a presentation by district business manager Robert Reichert Monday night. The consortium would coordinate vehicles and bus routes to transport the more than 3,700 area to 364 nonpublic and special-education schools. The districts together currently spend about $10 million to bus these students, a figure that will be cut by about 20 percent, Reichert said. …
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