The district has added 14 new school buses to its fleet. Before this year, if an elementary or middle school child lived within a mile-and-a-half of his school, he wasn't eligible to take a bus. Now the district has changed its policy.

Children qualify for bus service this school year, even if they live within a mile-and-a-half of school, if they have to cross a barrier street. That's a street that carries more than 30,000 vehicles every day or which has a speed limit of at least 45mph. Parents should have received a postcard telling them when a bus will pick up their children.