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The new school start time plan will be implemented for general bussing, which makes up the majority of all student transportation. However, we know that improvements must be made to our specialized transportation service, including buses that serve students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or who are in prekindergarten, along with buses that serve Cedar Lane School and Homewood Center.
Once this plan is implemented and general education routes begin arriving consistently on time, staff in the Office of Student Transportation will have greater bandwidth to evaluate and improve specialized routes on a route-by-route basis. Changes to specialized routes will be communicated directly with impacted families.
Additionally, we want to implement this new plan as early as possible because while route times are currently being updated, no new special education or prekindergarten students can be added into the system. A delay in implementation would result in a delay in transportation services for these students.