{"id":2790,"date":"2025-10-14T12:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2790\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:57:56","slug":"parents-react-as-plano-isd-cuts-bus-routes-for-2025-26-school-year-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2790\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents react as Plano ISD cuts bus routes for 2025-26 school year \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of parents with children attending Plano ISD schools are raising concerns following the elimination of some bus routes. Families must now find alternative transportation for their children going to and from school.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the district\u2019s 2025-2026 bus transportation plan. Letters sent to parents in March said the district updated zones that once qualified as hazardous for students living within two miles of campus.<\/p>\n<p>The district will discontinue busing for some zones that are now deemed safe per state recommendations. Our Partners at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/education\/2025\/08\/14\/hundreds-of-plano-isd-students-start-the-school-year-without-bus-service-amid-budget-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Dallas Morning News are reporting<\/a>\u00a0that anywhere between 950 and 1,300 students will feel the impact.<\/p>\n<p>The district pointed to economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir transportation costs are increasing rapidly. School officials are citing labor shortages and inflation. Last year, the district spent $20 million on transportation,\u201d said Lilly Kersh, a reporter with The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n<p>Parents, some of whom must walk to school, have been commenting on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies that used to have a bus stop right outside their home are now scrambling to find another option like carpooling or rearranging their work schedules,\u201d said Kersh. \u201cBut at the end of the day, the district says it\u2019s parents\u2019 responsibility to get their kids to school safely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of parents with children attending Plano ISD schools are raising concerns following the elimination of some bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-2790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}