Milwaukee Public Schools is offering a van service to help homeless students get to school.
David Fifarek, MPS senior director of transportation services, said the traditional yellow bus is still the district’s primary mode of transportation for students, but the alternative vehicles are being used for students who are harder to reach.
The district is leasing a fleet of 20 hybrid minivans that can each transport four students at a time. The vans make three trips each morning and afternoon…