continue to believe would be beneficial. This may also have the added benefit of trying to move towards electrifying our bus fleet in the future, which currently has many challenges. ● We have also discussed that Newton, like many communities, provides a much greater transportation service model to our public-school riders than is required under state law. The state law requires public schools to transport students in kindergarten through 6th grade that reside 2.01 miles or more from their assigned public school. We would have very few riders that would meet these criteria and we would save approximately $2.1 Million dollars if we adopted this policy.
The following tables summarize the total cost of yellow bus transportation for our students FY26 and FY27. The tables also show the number of total eligible riders and the average daily ridership.
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