It’s been a tumultuous five years for Precious Criddle and her family.
In 2022 her two oldest kids were attending Whitney M. Young Elementary, a magnet school within walking distance from her Shawnee neighborhood home. She was planning for her youngest to join them for kindergarten when Jefferson County Public Schools threw a wrench in their plans: not only would Young be changing locations to a building miles away from her home, but the district was also cutting transportation for magnet students.
Criddle doesn’t own a car and had no way to transport her kids to Young’s new location, so she enrolled them in King Elementary, the only other elementary school within walking distance in her West End neighborhood…