Pedestrian students without sidewalks can use bus

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For years, Cranbury school board members have felt that the district's policy on students who walk to school needed to be more clear and consistent.

On Tuesday, the board revised its busing policy to state that walkers who live on a road without a sidewalk or on a road where the speed limit is over 25 mph may be bused if the board and the administration deems it necessary. However, the district is not required to bus those students.

The original policy stated that the board will only "provide transportation to and from school for public school pupils in grades kindergarten through eight who live more than two miles from the school they attend."

Over the years, the board has used its discretion when it comes to busing, sometimes busing those who lived within the two-mile radius based on the safety of a given area.
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