Special-Ed Busing Still a Problem By Yoav Gonen
"September 25, 2007 -- Action by the Education Department to solve busing delays for special-ed students has been, well, delayed, Comptroller William Thompson said yesterday.
In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Thompson referenced the busing woes of two families detailed in yesterday's Post in asking why the DOE failed to address concerns he had raised last year.
'It was . . . with particular frustration that I read today's article in the New York Post noting DOE's continued failure to properly administer its resources and, in particular, its continued failure to transport children to their schools in a timely manner,' he wrote.
Last October, Thompson told Klein that special-education students were enduring long rides or late buses. A month later, Klein said it would be fixed.
DOE spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said the problems were due to students added to existing routes."
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