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Separated Parents Criticize Address Registration
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The New York City Board of Education gives the child of separated parents no free metrocard transportation to a second address. This policy stinks, says a dad who moved 5 miles from his child's school, and he asked that we publicize this policy which he believes hurts separated parents.
Click here: Separated Parents of City Students Criticize Address Registration Rules Article 73 of the New York State Transportation Law says: Text L93 1. a. Sufficient transportation facilities (including the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles) shall be provided by the school district for all the children residing within the school district to and from the school they legally attend, who are in need of such transportation because of the remoteness of the school to the child or for the promotion of the best interest of such children. Such transportation shall be provided for all children attending grades kindergarten through eight who live more than two miles from the school which they legally attend and for all children attending grades nine through twelve who live more than three miles from the school which they legally attend and shall be provided for each such child up to a distance of fifteen miles, the distances in each case being measured by the nearest available route from home to school. The cost of providing such transportation between two or three miles, as the case may be, and fifteen miles shall be considered for the purposes of this chapter to be a charge upon the district and an ordinary contingent expense of the district. Transportation for a lesser distance than two miles in the case of children attending grades kindergarten through eight or three miles in the case of children attending grades nine through twelve and for a greater distance than fifteen miles may be provided by the district, and, if provided, shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances residing in the district; provided, however, that this requirement shall not apply to transportation offered pursuant to section thirty-six hundred thirty-five- b of this article. (for non-public school children) Our question is, why cant the child get a full metrocard to cover the parent who lives farthest away? This would cover the child's transportation to both parents. |