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LSC LAYS OUT OPTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S SCHOOL DAY STARTS

Nobody seemed particularly excited Monday night about a potential change in school start times for the 2024-25 academic year, as Lafayette School Corp. tries to cope with a lingering shortage of bus drivers.

A 23-member task force, working on the issue for the past seven months, brought a pair of options, each of which would move LSC from two-start times to a three-tier school day that would allow drivers would run three routes on either side of the school day, instead of the two they run now.

Each option would mean big shifts for schools and families.

“The fairest thing to say is we’re between a rock and a hard place,” Bob Stwalley, the LSC school board president and a member of the transportation task force, said during a work session Monday. “But what we’re doing now isn’t working.”

(Photo: Dave Bangert)