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Received the following good news from City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s office. Council Member Lappin has helped obtain school bus service for some Roosevelt Island children.
In response to a request from Council Member Jessica Lappin, the Department of Education has reversed its position of refusing to assign a school bus route to Roosevelt Island for students who attend schools in Manhattan.
On behalf of several constituents who had contacted the Council Members office, Lappin wrote a letter to Deputy Chancellor Kathleen Grimm in which she laid out the overcrowded transportation situation on Roosevelt Island and urged the DOE to create a bus route for the Island. In her June 24 response, Deputy Chancellor Grimm wrote that the DOE intended to do just that.
The Deputy Chancellor wrote that while bus service may not be available to all Island children attending public schools elsewhere, certain District 2 schools like Lower Lab that have more than the minimum number of students needed to create new service will be getting a bus stop in the coming year.
I want to commend the Department of Education for doing what is right for Roosevelt Island, Council Member Lappin said. Especially with the tram expected to be out of service for long periods of time over the coming year, school bus service will provide needed transportation for children who attend school in Manhattan. Im glad that I was able to play a part in making school bus service a reality.
Below is Councilmember Lappin’s letter to Department of EducationLappin letter re RI busing 5 13 08-1 – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: Lappin letter re RI busing 5 13 08-1 And the letter in response from DOE DOE Letter re RI busing 6 24 08 – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: DOE Letter re RI busing 6 24 08 
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Good job by Council Member Lappin in obtaining a much needed service for Roosevelt Island children and their parents. Gothamist has more on last year’s school routing problems.
