You are doing a great job here. As you've arranged, take a look at the school and decide if it "feels" right. (although with Silvia Rimm as part of the guidance dept, I'm fairly certain that it will be fabulous). First things first.
You'll hear from DYS soon enough.
I think Ohio will give you "transportation reimbursement" if they won't bus your child to the school he/she attends. It isn't much $$ at all (maybe $100-$200 a year) but it's a start. You don't want to forgo a few hundred for the cost of a stamp. The check comes at the END of the year. Call your local school transportation department for details.
"As routing and scheduling for each school year is done, it may be determined that some students are impractical to transport. They could be because there are not enough students to justify a whole bus route, it is not cost effective to adjust a route for a single student or the route does not meet state time allowances. Ohio law allows a Board of Education to declare transportation impractical under these conditions.
When this happens, parents/guardians are eligible to receive money to help cover the cost of transporting their children to school. This is a state program that provides reimbursement only when both of these criteria are met: 1) the student is eligible for transportation but is deemed impractical to transport by CPS, and 2) the student lives one mile or more from the school.
The amount of this payment is set annually by the Ohio Department of Education, near the end of the school year (usually in May). The payment rate for 2010-2011 was $199.34 per student."
Last edited by herenow; 10/24/11 07:31 PM.
