Transportation
The following is an excerpt from the Chicago Board of Education Policy 602.2:
V. TRANSPORTATION
1. Application to and acceptance in any magnet school, magnet cluster school or GEAP school or
program shall be made without regard to whether a student is eligible for transportation services. Hence, a student may apply and be accepted to a magnet school or program regardless of whether the student would be entitled to receive transportation.
2. CPS provides transportation services during the regular school day to students attending its
magnet schools and programs in accordance with applicable federal and state laws, any board reports related to specific schools and the following requirements. Subject to the availability of funding, the following transportation services will be provided during the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years:
a. Transportation service is provided to those students attending an elementary magnet school,
who live more than 1.5 miles and less than 6.0 miles from the school in which they are enrolled.
3. The provisions of this Policy will not act to limit the entitlement of any student who receives
transportation services as a result of IEP accommodations, homelessness or any other program that provides transportation services.
4. Transportation services are not provided to any student residing less than 1.5 miles from the
school they are attending, unless a safety hazard exists within the minimum transportation distance.
Parents requesting transportation within the 1.5 mile area must complete the “Request for Exception Application for Determination of Serious Safety Hazard” form and return it to the school principal. The request must be approved by the Management Support Director with any appeals going to the Office of P-12 Management.
Currently, Frazier International Magnet School students who reside more than 1.5 miles and less than 6.0 miles from the school (based on a CPS system calculation of mileage) are eligible for bus transportation. Students wait at their attendance area (neighborhood) school and a school bus picks them up and drops them off at the same location each school day. Busing is not available for extended day after and before school programming other than the Boys and Girls Club partnership.
Our partnership with the King Boys and Girls Club allows students to leave at the end of the regularly scheduled school day and be transported by school bus to the Boys and Girls Club where a family member can pick them up later in the day.