Nov 8 2004 The Chicago Sun-Times PITTSBURGH -- State education officials rejected a request by parents and school administrators to help pay for buses so children would not have to walk through a crime-ridden neighborhood.
Pittsburgh Superintendent John Thompson asked state officials in a letter to designate some of the routes children walk to Homewood Elementary School as hazardous because eight people were shot within blocks of the school in a recent week.
But officials turned down the request, explaining that state law only allows the Department of Education to pay for buses if traffic, not crime, makes walking dangerous.
Nov 8 2004 The Chicago Sun-Times PITTSBURGH -- State education officials rejected a request by parents and school administrators to help pay for buses so children would not have to walk through a crime-ridden neighborhood.
Pittsburgh Superintendent John Thompson asked state officials in a letter to designate some of the routes children walk to Homewood Elementary School as hazardous because eight people were shot within blocks of the school in a recent week.
But officials turned down the request, explaining that state law only allows the Department of Education to pay for buses if traffic, not crime, makes walking dangerous.
Penn. won't pay to bus kids through rough area
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 09:29:54 AM
