Students are required to have a bus pass in order to ride the bus to and/or from school.
Background: California Education Code Section 41850.1, commencing with the 2022-23 fiscal year, created the Home to School Transportation Reimbursement. This reimbursement apportionment is subject to transportation expenditure reporting as described in the Education Code.
As a condition of receiving apportionments under section 41850.1, a local educational agency shall develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income.
The Plan shall include the following components:
A description of the local educational agency's transportation services that would be accessible to pupils with disabilities and homeless children and youth.
A description of how unduplicated pupils would be able to access available home to school transportation at no cost.
The plan shall be developed in consultation with staff, regional transit authorities, local air quality management districts, parents, pupils and other stakeholders.
The plan shall be presented and adopted by the Governing Board in an open meeting with the opportunity for in-person and remote public comment.