A few footsteps inside Palestinian territory, it was laid briefly on the open ground so that Palestinians who were unable to get the necessary permits to attend the burial in Israel could bid him farewell.
To bring the flame the few miles to his native Bethlehem, the region's largest concentration of Christians, Father Issa Muslieh (pictured above) has to negotiate a wall and an Israeli checkpoint (pictured right); not many other Bethlehemites get permits to attend the ceremony in Jerusalem.
O'Rourke suggested making "all of our sites as attractive as possible" to those who live outside the district and want permits to attend local schools.
Matt Hill said he also wants to pinpoint why parents who applied and received permits to attend the district ultimately chose other districts to enroll their children.
The report states that 1,184 students who don't live within Burbank's boundaries received permits to attend local schools for the current school year.
However, 79 students who live in Burbank obtained permits to attend schools outside Burbank Unified for the current school year, said Brian O'Rourke, the district's director of safety and student services.
