The School Board will review SP4K busing tomorrow night.This started out as a simple issue...a parent complained (rightfully) that their 4 year old was spending 2 hours a day on a bus for about 2.5 hours of instruction. But...as with many school board issues, this one became another bloomin' onion....the more layers you peel away, the more information that comes clear.
Notable facts:
1. We, the people, and the school board were sold a bill of goods with the 4K program. We were told that busing costs were projected (and budgeted) to be about $50K. The number of students is as projected, yet the busing costs are FOUR TIMES higher than projected at just under $200K per year.
2. The cost to bus each student is a whopping $1963.34 per year, which is just more than FOUR times the average cost to bus a K-12 student.
3. There are FOUR times fewer kids per bus than for K-12 kids.
4. Here's the silver tuna...the school district expects to make a profit of about ONE MILLION dollars off the 4K program. Shhhhh...keep that one under your hat. They don't want YOU to know that...and they certainly don't want Scott Walker to find out that DPI is giving out $1M more for 4K than the program actually costs ...for ONE district
WTF?
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