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Less chumras:
You are correct in that once the buses are integrated with men and women and public funds are used, they can’t be segregated But since yeshivas are single sexed they have been allowed to have all of their students on separate buses this has already been litigated. If they proof the monitor is only doing co-ed busing to deny them the mandated busing and not to save money there is a civil rights violation. Once there is a court case the state has to explain why the state took over the elected school board ( overrode the school board ) and how and when they are going to return it back to the elected board
All students must be treated equal so you are going to have students from two public schools also sharing the same bus. Students will sleep on the bus and get off at the wrong school. Whose responsibility is it to transfer him back to the right school.
Gov. Christie is running for President so I really don’t think he want to be know as the man who is deny school buses to 25,000 children. The yeshiva have already told there parents not to car pool. That means 5,000 to 15,000 additional cars during rush hour. Not for one day but for the whole school year. This will result in massive traffic jam and many student will not get to school until 10 o;clock or even later. Emergency vehicles wouldn’t be able to get through there will be chaos. Some body will step forward and make a deal, the state will pay the $884 per student directly to the yeshivas for busing and it will be over.
I can’t see the monitor or any one else in the district as staff has been cut to the bone, rearranging bus routes for 30,000 pupil by Sept. 2015 so that there might not be be co-ed busing.