Brookfield loses school busing decision

WARREN — Brookfield schools must provide busing to schoolchildren who attend Catholic schools in the Warren area.

Judges for the 7th District Court of Appeals in Youngstown reversed a visiting judge in Trumbull County, who ruled parents in Brookfield were not entitled to have the school district bus their children to the Catholic schools outside the district.

The decision, by Judges Joseph Vukovich, Cheryl Waite and Mary DeGenaro, says the Brookfield school system must immediately provide the busing.

The case was filed by Valerie Luchette of Brookfield, whose lawyer was Judge Ronald Rice, judge of Eastern District Court in Brookfield. The judge’s wife Judge Cynthia Wescott Rice serves on the 11th District Court of Appeals in Warren.

The Rices and Luchette have children who want to be transported by a Brookfield school bus to Warren John F. Kennedy High School or Blessed Sacrament (K-6) school in Howland.

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