East Valley school districts say they no longer have the resources to bus students to campuses belonging to the East Valley Institute of Technology without a new intergovernmental agreement, leaving students and families uncertain about the next school year.
District leaders warn that absorbing those transportation costs would drain funding from career and technical education programs already running on their own campuses. EVIT leaders push back, pointing to more than $50 million that it says districts already have access to and could use for transportation.
Tessah Sims, a sophomore in the Chandler Unified School District, wants to study to become an EMT at the EVIT main campus. Without a bus to get her there, she says the program may be out of reach…