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Program to offer 50% discounted fares to lower-income Bay Area residents

Original post made on Jan 8, 2024

Officials are encouraging lower-income Bay Area residents to apply for a pilot program that offers 50% discounted fares on local transit.

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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Jan 8, 2024 at 1:50 pm

Steven Nelson is a registered user.

I hope the MVWSD school district has some form of 'explicit help' for reaching all the poor family parents who try their best to support their students in our public schools. I think all the (4?) higher poverty elementary schools have some sort of community engagement coordinators who might 'facilitate' this type of project.

PS Recently the Board of the MVWSD, under recommendation of the Administration, chose to OFFICIALLY adopt a Policy of Not covering the transportation costs of poor students legally asking to transfer into wealthier and better academic performing schools like STEVENSON (PACT). * Therefore the district is not eligible for the new 60% state student transportation subsidy **, that would have covered more-than-half of the costs for poor students!

*11/16/'23 new restriction adoption BP 5116.1, 11/2/'23 transportation discussion VII.C.

** CDE Web Link
** The mini-van/ minimal-retrained driver-employee option was released late-in-the-process
"Small Vehicle Purchase" / not requiring "Big Yellow School Bus" special commercial license

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