Youngstown BOE agrees to pay Mooney students $200 instead of busing


Youngstown

The city school board authorized payment for five Cardinal Mooney High School students rather than transporting them to school.

The board’s resolution, approved unanimously at a board meeting Tuesday, says that the district has determined that transportation of the five students between home and school is impracticable even though the students are eligible for transportation by the board.

Earlier this year, Randy Rair, assistant superintendent of the Diocese of Youngstown’s Office of Catholic Schools, sent a letter to the district about transportation. It said that the diocese schools are considering requesting a financial and routing audit of the city schools transportation department.

“The children and families of our schools who

reside in the Youngstown City School District have been forced to deal with tremendous aggravation and disruption of their education because of mistakes made by” the city schools transportation department, the letter said.

Rair said 28 Mooney students have been denied transportation.

The payment authorized by the board would be about $200 per student per year. The five students listed in the resolution are Loren Cancel, Cody and Dustin Congemi, Shantrele M. Jones and Turei Williams.

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