Louisville school district officials say an overhaul of bus routes created too steep a learning curve for the system.
Parent Berkley Collins sits with her two elementary school children, Emma, right, and Arai, in Louisville, Ky., Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Collins said her daughter Emma was two hours late being dropped off on the first day of school two days earlier. Buses around the Louisville district were delayed and many kids were left at schools or stuck on buses after the school district's new transportation plan went awry. The district canceled all classes for the rest of the week.
“They were hungry,” he said of his two elementary-age kids. “They were thirsty. They couldn’t use the bathroom. They were scared because they just wanted to get home.” It could take until the middle of next week to resolve the problems enough to resume classes, Superintendent Marty Pollio said Friday, promising to give parents plenty of notice before Monday.
The overhaul was intended to solve a basic math problem for the district: Last school year, it didn’t have enough drivers to cover all the routes. As a result, thousands of kids missed considerable amounts of instructional time as some drivers made double and triple runs.Pollio said the district will have to stick with the new plan, which he admitted “isn't perfect.”
AlphaRoute said in a statement that the “full range of root causes” for the problems weren't yet clear. “I have to figure out what we’re going to do,” she said. “I’m not going to let these kids go back out and just be wandering around for hours.”
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