Some Wake school schedules to shift for better busing
Schedules at 17 Wake County schools will be shifted to improve arrival times for bused students, the school board said Thursday.
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The Board of Education on Tuesday approved recommendations from the transportation staff to shift the bell schedules for the schools, saying most will change by less than 20 minutes.
The shift is an effort to improve busing times, which have been widely criticized by parents since the start of the school year. District offices received hundreds of emails from parents in August and September about bused students arriving late, not being dropped off at their assigned stops and getting home several hours after the school day ended.
Administrators acknowledged the busing problems were the result of cutbacks, and they scrambled to fix routes, hire drivers and put about three dozen buses back on the road.
The majority of Wake County’s 169 schools will be unaffected by the changes approved Tuesday. The schools with schedule adjustments are:
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