Philadelphia Flat Rate Pilot Program: Families missing payments for school bus program
They say they are missing payments they're due from a new pilot program involving transportation. The "Flat Rate Pilot Program" pays families who opt out of taking the bus this year. You only get paid, though, when students attend 70% of their school's scheduled in-person days a month. So while it doesn't affect Philadelphia public school students who are 100-percent virtual, it does affect hundreds of families whose kids attend archdiocesan and independent or private schools in the district. That includes Bernadette Appiott's daughter, Kimberly, who attends St. Lucy Day School. "St. Lucy's i...
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