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Old 04-07-2016, 08:28 PM
 
Location: Indianapolis
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Originally Posted by rrah View Post
I forgot about the school budget issues in Franklin Township. Are they transporting students there or did they stop the buses/start charging?
Multiple courts ruled that charging for bus service violated the state constitution, so I believe that was discontinued.

Again, anyone who lives in FT or is familiar with the issue, feel free to chime in.

This is from the Star in 2014 and the latest I could find on it without doing too much research:


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Franklin Township Schools violated the state constitution when it discontinued bus service and arranged for an outside company to shuttle students for a fee, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

It’s a partial win for township parents who fought the fee and had to find their own ways to transport their children to school. The ruling, if it stands, also would prevent other school corporations from trying the same approach to solve a budget problem.

Crunched by tax caps and millions in debt, the Franklin Township Community School Corporation ended its bus service in the 2011-12 school year.

It handed over bus services to Central Indiana Educational Service Center, a private firm, which charged parents $475 per year and a $20 non-refundable fee to transport one child, with another $405 for each additional child, according to the filing.

But the state Court of Appeals decided that transportation is part of the public education system, in part pointing to a state mandate for schools to bus homeless, foster-care, special-needs and even some private-school students.

“It is hard to image that the legislature meant to require our school corporations to transport these students but exclude all others,” the opinion said.

The court, however, maintained an earlier ruling that the parents were not entitled to monetary damages.
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