Students in need get bus fare help

01-05-2010

By Leonel Sanchez/San Diego Union-Tribune

When Consuelo Manriquez arrived as a new principal at San Diego High School this fall, she noticed a problem with attendance and tardiness and quickly learned a sad truth. Many students who live in the low-income neighborhoods that the downtown school draws live far from the campus and can’t afford public transportation. “There’s no money,” she said. “Parents are unemployed, got laid off and the rent is so high.” The San Diego Unified School District provides transportation to the school only for special education students and students attending magnet programs. And many students who aren’t within walking distance can’t afford the $36 monthly bus and trolley passes from the Metropolitan Transit System. Manriquez believes her school’s low-academic standing would improve with better attendance and appealed to friends to help raise money for passes for students who applied for transportation scholarships. (more...)

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