{"id":253609,"date":"2026-04-17T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253609\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:15:09","slug":"round-rock-isd-puts-plans-to-change-bus-routes-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253609\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Rock ISD puts plans to change bus routes on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ROUND ROCK, Texas &#8211; Round Rock ISD said they will no longer be changing bus routes for the next school year. The plans are being put on hold.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The district said this is in response to concerns from parents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The current routes will continue through the 2026\u201327 school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">RRISD said they plan to organize a transportation engagement committee that will consider input on future changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The committee will include parents as well as staff members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">They hope to hold their first meeting in August.<\/p>\n<p> Controversial Round Rock ISD bus route change  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jw550vx5kd7a7l7i.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Round Rock ISD parents frustrated with bus route cuts\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">In March, parents voiced their concerns over the elimination of several student bus routes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Parents say the decision to eliminate bus routes would force their children to walk to school along roadways they describe as dangerous.\u200b<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The district&#8217;s transportation department said the cuts are due to a reclassification of &#8220;hazardous routes,&#8221; meaning those paths no longer meet the criteria for bus service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Round Rock ISD and previous FOX 7 Austin coverage<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\/round-rock\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Round Rock<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROUND ROCK, Texas &#8211; Round Rock ISD said they will no longer be changing bus routes for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,163,223,6240,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-253609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-round-rock","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}