WRDSB trustees give green light to motion exploring free GRT passes for students
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Trustees with Waterloo region’s public school board are moving forward with exploring options to provide free bus passes to students.
Trustees with Waterloo region’s public school board are moving forward with exploring options to provide free bus passes to students.
A motion passed at Monday night’s Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) committee meeting will see a report put together on the feasibility of providing free Grand River Transit (GRT) passes to secondary school students.
The report will determine the financial implications, which are currently not known, and the possibility of local partnerships to make it happen.
The motion requests board staff explore a partnership with the Region of Waterloo and/or its townships and municipalities.
It also requests the report look at the possibility of partnering with local businesses and explore any funding supports that exist.
The motion also includes the idea of some kind of free transportation for younger students, however, the details of what this will look like have not been released.
Some students attending WRDSB schools do not qualify for school buses because of where they live and rely on GRT to get to and from school.
