City officials have long known that unreliable school bus service is disrupting families and keeping children from arriving at school on time or at all
Long before a lawsuit detailed the shameful ways that a lack of reliable school bus service has been burdening local families, D.C. officials knew they were failing disabled students.
Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. They knew that when a mom started posting a list of delayed bus routes on social media and found she had to keep posting day after day. More than 260 days later, she is still posting about delays.They knew. They knew students with disabilities were getting to school late or not at all. They knew those students were sitting on buses for long stretches of time and sometimes arriving at their destinations agitated and soiled from going to the restroom on themselves.
“Defendant’s failure to provide safe, reliable, and appropriate transportation, thereby denying students with disabilities equal access to their education and unnecessarily segregating them, is precisely the type of discrimination and segregation that the was enacted to prevent and prohibit,” reads the complaint.
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