FOR HE JUST BUSTED OUT CRYING. HE SAID. I THOUGHT MY FAMILY DISAPPEARED AND IT WAS KIND OF TERRIFYING, SAY THE LEAST. STUDENTS ON BUSSES FOR HOURS WHILE SOME WERE DROPPED OFF AT THE WRONG STOP. GOOD EVENING TO YOU. I맥스카지노�M JENNIFER BAYLESS. TONIGHT, WE맥스카지노�RE HEARING HORROR STORIES FROM PARENTS AND STUDENTS ABOUT THE BUSSING CRISIS. THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR IS ALREADY ON HOLD AFTER THE FIRST DAY ENDS IN DISASTER. SOME PARENTS DIDN맥스카지노�T KNOW WHERE THEIR KIDS WERE FOR HOURS. THE LAST STUDENT DIDN맥스카지노�T GET HOME UNTIL NEARLY 10:00 LAST NIGHT. THIS ALL STEMS FROM NEW TRANSPORTATION PLAN WITH ADJUSTED SCHOOL START TIMES AND BUS ROUTES. THIS YEAR, WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE FOR YOU TONIGHT. LAUREN ADAMS TALKED TO MANY OF THOSE FRUSTRATED PARENTS. BUT FIRST, WE START WITH ALEXIS MATTHEWS WHO HAS REACTION FROM THE DISTRICT AND WHY SOME BELIEVE THIS COULD HAVE ALL BEEN AVOIDED. ALEXIS. WELL, JENNIFER, DISTRICT LEADERS CALLED THE BUSSING ISSUES A DISASTER AND UNACCEPTABLE. NOW THEY ARE TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNT ABILITY AND SAY THEY PLAN TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS. BUT THE BUS UNION LEADER TELLS ME THE CRISIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED ALTOGETHER IF THE DISTRICT HAD NOT USED A FLAWED PROGRAM. IT WAS FAR FROM A SMOOTH START TO THE NEW YEAR FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FORCING THE DISTRICT TO CANCEL SCHOOL FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. THE FIRST DAY WITH NEW BUS ROUTES AND START TIMES SAW EXTREME BUS DELAYS. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SAY THEY WERE MORTIFIED THAT SOME STUDENTS GOT TO SCHOOL HOURS LATE AND OTHERS DID NOT GET HOME UNTIL WELL INTO THE NIGHT. WE WERE EXPECTING THERE TO BE SOME HICCUPS, BUT NONE TO THIS DEGREE. AND SO I맥스카지노�M DEEPLY CONCERNED. LEARNED ABOUT THE COMING DAYS AND APOLOGETIC TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, OUR FAMILIES AND OUR STAFF FOR WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED YESTERDAY IN A VIDEO MESSAGE TO FAMILIES JCPS SUPERINTENDENT MARTY POLLIO APOLOGIZED AND SAID THERE WAS NO EXCUSE FOR THE PROBLEMS. HE SAYS THE DISTRICT WILL WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO FIX THE ISSUES BY REVIEWING BUS ROUTES, PAYING DRIVERS TO PRACTICE THEM AND PROVING COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES AND INCREASING THE BUS STOP HOTLINE STAFF. BUT I HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR KIDS ARE SAFE AND WE WILL NOT HAVE A REPEAT OF WHAT HAPPENED AND WE WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL UNTIL I KNOW WE CAN GET KIDS HOME SAFELY. THE LOCAL BUS UNION SAYS ABOUT A DOZEN BUS DRIVERS QUIT OR GOT ANOTHER JOB WITHIN FOLLOWING THE BUSSING DEBACLE. UNION PRESIDENT JOHN STOVALL BELIEVES THE ISSUES WILL CONTINUE UNLESS THE DISTRICT ACTS. THE NEW ALPHA ROUTE SYSTEM THAT GENERATES THE STOPS. I JUST DON맥스카지노�T THINK RUNNING THE ROUTES EVERY DAY IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE DIFFERENCE IS GOING TO BE MADE WHEN THEY GO BACK AND EXAMINE THESE ROUTES, THE STOPS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, AND SAY, WHY ARE WE GOING FROM BLANKENBAKER ROAD TO CANE RUN ROAD FOR TWO KIDS? JCP맥스카지노�S IS NOT THE ONLY DISTRICT TO HAVE ISSUES WITH THE ALPHA ROUTE PROGRAM. THE SOFTWARE CONTRIBUTED TO MAJOR PROBLEMS AT COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOLS JUST LAST YEAR, AND THEY HAVE FEWER STUDENTS ON BUSSES. IT맥스카지노�S WHY STOVALL SAYS IT맥스카지노�LL TAKE MORE THAN FOUR DAYS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS HERE AND SUGGESTS THE DISTRICT CANCEL CLASSES NEXT WEEK. YOU HATE IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT KIDS THAT WANT TO GET BACK TO SCHOOL, YOU GOT DRIVERS THAT WANT TO GET BACK TO WORK AND THEY WANT TO DO THEIR JOB THE BEST, THEIR ABILITY AND ALL THAT. BUT THIS SYSTEM HAS FAILED. THE DISTRICT, I MEAN, BADLY. NOW, WE REACHED OUT TO THE ALPHA ROUTE TEAM WHO ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT SAID IN PART AT THIS TIME, IT맥스카지노�S NOT YET CLEAR WHAT THE ROOT CAUSES WERE FOR THOSE ISSUES. BUT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE SITUATION WAS EXTREMELY REGRETTABLE AND LIKELY CAUSED BY THE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO BUS ROUTING WHICH WERE MADE NECESSARY BY THE DISTRICT맥스카지노�S SEVERE DRIVER SHORTAGE. NOW WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT DURING THIS PROCESS. I맥스카지노�M LIVE FROM BRECKENRIDGE, FRANKL