Changes are coming to JCPS bus transportation, so some students may have to go to their neighborhood schools. This could add cars to the drop-off and pick-up lines.
Resides schools are set by boundary lines and aren't necessarily the school closest to your house. If resides schools are over capacity, the district will then need to look at adjusting boundary lines.
The district said the only transportation it can guarantee for the 2024-25 school year is for "special education students and students attending their resides school."
The district will address the problems in a new report during a Board of Education meeting next Tuesday, Dec. 5.
A group of Republicans in Frankfort now plan to form a commission to study whether or not the district should be split into smaller districts.
Looking at total instructional minutes lost this school year, from Oct. 9 to Oct. 31, JCPS saw students lose 1,346,272 minutes. Last year, between Oct. 6 to Oct. 31, 323,972 minutes were lost.
The district will address the problems in a new report during a Board of Education meeting next Tuesday, Dec. 5.
Jefferson County Teachers Association is the district's largest teachers' union. Brent McKim is JCTA's president.
The mayor also had high praise for LMPD's new police chief.
The district had implemented changes to its transportation system to get kids home at a reasonable time.