Moreover, school buses are only part of the scrambled student transportation network.
"Ordinary" expenditures, such as student transportation, must be paid for under contingency.
For 15 years, the state, the city and the transit agency have each contributed at least $45 million for student transportation.
Transit officials insisted that it was not their responsibility to pay for the program, noting that most cities support student transportation by using state and local money.
The president of New York City's largest union for school bus drivers said this week that he would reopen contract negotiations for general and special-education student transportation, indicating that a strike was not imminent.
What that means for the new district plan is that student transportation ratios will flip as well, from 60 percent of the students on a bus this year — mostly elementary school age, heading to the outlying schools — to about 60 percent living within one mile of school.
First Student is the provider of student transportation in North America with a fleet of approximately 54,000 yellow school buses, carrying six million students every day across 38 States in the United States and nine Provinces and Territories in Canada.
Recommendations included increased visibility of security officers on campus, email alerts about criminal activity in Hyde Park, the expansion of student transportation services, expanded use of security cameras, and safety education for students.
"The monies that we spend on transportation are monies we don't have to put into our school system," Bloomberg said, adding that the city spends $1.1 billion a year on student transportation, or $6,900 per student.
Because we were interested in measuring the effect of the WSB program on usual student transportation, none of the data collection occurred on days with a planned walking school bus or walk-to-school promotion event.
