People keep asking for this number. Here is what we received this morning:

The transportation cost for superintendent’s redistricting proposal is around 2.76 million dollars, if rising seniors and juniors are exempted and all of them take the exemptions. In policy, only rising seniors are granted exemption, but the board in general grants exemptions to our rising juniors.

Rising 5th graders or 8th graders with siblings are the other two groups who may be exempted in the past discussion. Because we want to keep siblings in the same school when redistricting happens.

Considering the budget constraint the school is facing in FY 2021, the more students are moved, the high this transportation cost will be.

Because of tight budget, we will pay a lot of attention on these numbers. Just give a perspective:

• A paraeducator costs around 27k-30k a year,
• an entry teacher costs around 60k a year with benefit.
• A school bus costs 67k a year.