"A plan to reduce busing at the high school level stalled in a meeting of the Milwaukee School Board’s finance committee Tuesday...the version presented Tuesday was the first to reduce transportation to citywide schools offering specialty programs such as International Baccalaureate, language immersion and art...
Students who opt for a school outside their attendance area would have to pay to get themselves there on county transit.
Morales said she anticipated Milwaukee residents who lacked reliable private transportation and those with children in multiple schools would struggle as a result of the change.
The change would save MPS roughly $1 million by its full implementation in the 2011-12 academic year."
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