As routing and scheduling for each school year is done, it may be determined that some students are impractical to transport. They could be because there are not enough students to justify a whole bus route, it is not cost effective to adjust a route for a single student or the route does not meet state time allowances. Ohio law allows a Board of Education to declare transportation impractical under these conditions.
When this happens, parents/guardians are eligible to receive money to help cover the cost of transporting their children to school. This is a state program that provides reimbursement only when both of these criteria are met: 1) the student is eligible for transportation but is deemed impractical to transport by CPS, and 2) the student lives one mile or more from the school.
The amount of this payment is set annually by the Ohio Department of Education, near the end of the school year (usually in May). The payment rate for 2010-2011 was $199.34 per student.
The Board of Education will mail payment checks in the amount specified by the Ohio Department of Education for payment in lieu of service in July. Parents who have agreed with the impratical-to-transport status and who have not received their payment check by August 1 should contact the Pupil Transportation Branch (363-0330).