http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/nyc_panel_to_vet_community_edu.html
This is even more needed than getting 7th and 8th graders back on. The route some 7 and 8 year olds have to walk is ridiculous ... almost as ridiculous as giving a kindergartener a Metro Card.
IF ....the city was cutting money everywhere else you can sell this off as the economic times. In fact they arent the usual waste continues with extra development on the waterfront and buying Trump a Golf Course etc. Sick......if you wrote this in a book no one would believe how ugly and mismanaged this city is under someone that was supposed to stop and be even more responsible then past mayors.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/staten_island_compromise_would.html
They needed the money they saved on busing grades 7 and 8 for all the unused bike racks all around New Dorp and other parts of the Island/city.