How To Save $4 Million
From busing, that is.
Been a lot of folks wanting an explanation for how CMS would save $4 million in transportation costs by changing bell schedules at more than 100 of the district’s elementary schools.
“It expands the window for us to optimize our bus routes,” Ed Shed COO Hugh Hattabaugh told county commissioners last week. “Instead of a bus taking care of three schools, it will take care of four schools. By so doing, we’ll be able to park 100 buses.”
Each bus cost about $40,000 to operate. Parking them will allow the district to save on fuel, maintenance and staffing, Hattabaugh said. And about that staffing: CMS would pinkslip 100-plus bus drivers from its fleet, adding to the 1,056 employees already on the chopping block under Superintendent Peter Gorman’s proposed cuts.
The school board is slated to vote on three of those proposals at its Tuesday night meeting: the revised bell schedules, cutting about $10 million from the Bright Beginnings pre-K program, and reducing the number of teachers (about 134 out of 800) assigned to high-poverty schools.
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