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School board: Too impractical to transport parochial kids
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Youngstown
The city school board has declared it impractical to transport 41 parochial school students and offered payment instead.
Fifteen of those students attend Cardinal Mooney High School and 26 attend St. Rose School in Girard.
The payments offered to the students amount to about $200 per student per year. In late October, the school board declared it impractical to transport five other Mooney students, and also offered them payment instead.
Students can accept the payment or request mediation through the Ohio Department of Education.
The reason for the “impracticality of transporting such students is the number of students to be transported, and the cost of providing transportation in terms of equipment, maintenance, personnel and administration,” the resolution says.
In other business, the board also transferred $283,430 from a school-building-assistance fund to the Rayen Stadium Capital Project Fund. The state has told the district to close out the school-building-assistance fund so the money must be transferred to another fund, Treasurer William Johnson told board members.
A committee, led by Jim Tressel, former Youngstown State University and Ohio State University football coach, and the Rev. Dr. Lewis Macklin of Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, is raising money to renovate Rayen Stadium.
About $1.6 million has been raised of the $3 million goal. The committee plans to have the stadium ready for next fall’s football season.
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Why are parochial students using youngstown city school buses in the first place.. and why aren't they paying to use the bus since they choose to go to a parochial school private instead of public .. why is a Mahoning county bus being used to transport into trumbull county then giving families 200 dollars to NOT take them....
The kids deserve safe transportation and Youngstown needs to provide it as required by law. $200 isn't enough to fill my SUV 3 times.
The City of Youngstown School system has less than 7,000 students.
The Youngstown City Schools revenues for 2010 were $138 million, of which only $22 million came from property taxes paid by city property owners. The remainder of the revenues came from grants and other subsidies.
City property owners are paying property taxes on the levy passed to pay the city's matching share of the $182 million spent on new schools in recent years.
Charter schools receive the state subsidy which normally goes to a school district when a student goes to the charter school. Parochial schools are not charter schools, do not receive the state subsidy as the charter schools do, and are funded by the church, with minimal financial aid from government for specific non-religious purposes.
Even though the parochical school students do not attend city schools, the city receives the state subsidy [thousands of dollars per student] for these students, not the parochial schools. This has been going on for decades.
The law does permit the transportation of parochial schools students.
The parents of parochial students pay property taxes to support the city schools and other taxes which support the city schools, and then they pay the tuition of their children in the parochial school system.
Youngstown and other school systems have been doing well with the money from the state for parochial students who do not csot them anythings to educate.
The amount of financial support needed to transport those students is a small price to pay for students who are also city residents.
Making public schools transport parochial kids is a hoot. The same schools stealing their kids and the public schools must provide busing service? Who made that tom foolery up, God?
I used to ride a Poland school bus to Mooney in the 60s - this is not a new policy.
As thethinker has pointed out here the Youngstown schools are actually making money on this deal. The reason they are choosing parochial schools is that they are truly interested in having their children educated. Which they know won't happen in the Youngstown City Schools.
Residents of Youngstown pay Youngstown taxes that support the Youngstown public school system even if they choose to send their children to a private school. And the same goes for residents of any suburb, those residents pay taxes that support their local school system. Superman, clearly you are an idiot.
If it only cost $200.00/year for transportation per student then the Youngstown schools should only be spending $1.4M /year on transpotation costs ---what ARE they spending??
the parochial schools are taking the voucher when taking a city school student. Yes, the money follows the student. Reagrdless if they go to a parochial, charter, or computer school.
According to the State Financial Audit of the school system for 2010, in 2010 the Youngstown School system spent $5.2 million on student transportation, down from $5.6 million in 2009.
The sharing of cigars on school property seen in the championship game at Mooney shows the true quality of education and values of the local parochial schools.