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Fury in historic northeast city as officials use school buses for MIGRANTS...
• https://www.dailymail.co, By James ReinlParents in a Boston exurb have reacted angrily to revelations that schools are axing buses for local children — but keeping them running for the kids of migrants and asylum seekers.
Some 150 students at Stoughton Public Schools are scrambling to find ways to get to school from September 4, after the district cut services due to a lack of funding.
Controversially, the hundreds of migrant and asylum seeker families living in the town of Stoughton will still get school-buses, thanks to funding from the state.
The scrapping of buses for local kids comes amid fears that Massachusetts is going broke and will lose $1.8 billion over the next two years due to migrant costs.
Boston radio host Jeff Kuhner said the Democrat-run state was 'prioritizing illegals over citizens' and that the busing change amounted to 'treason.'
Others complained that the town of 30,000 people was 'losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue' from its hotels being crammed with migrant families instead of tourists and business visitors.
'It's wrong on so many levels that taxpayers' children can't get the bus,' posted an X user.
The town's Superintendent of Schools Joseph Baeta told parents about the change in a letter earlier this month.
'Unfortunately, for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year, 150 secondary students who signed up to ride a bus were not able to be placed on a bus,' says the letter.
'We understand the feelings of disappointment and frustration this caused for the families who did not receive bus transportation.'
Baeta said the bus system was overloaded by 160 more students seeking transport compared to last year.
At the same time, budget cuts mean organizers have one less buss than last year, and drivers are hard to find, he added.
Though cutting services for some students, Baeta said two buses would serve migrant children living in the town's hotels and shelters.
Unlike for American grade 7-12 students, this was required for migrants under Massachusetts law — and was financed through separate funds, Baeta added.