ALBANY — After 11 long years, the Albany City School District is finally going to be able to bus students who live 1.5 miles away from their elementary school.
The state will reimburse the school district for 80% of the cost, starting this fall. That’s what made it affordable to the district. But it took years of lobbying, two legislative sessions and then years of regulation-writing to make that happen.
It all began when a pre-kindergarten student was killed by a garbage truck on his way to school in 2015. Ashiqur Rahman and his mother were crossing at a crosswalk, with the cross light in their favor, and a crossing guard was working the intersection as well. But it wasn’t enough…