FORT LAUDERDALE – Summer is over for students in Broward.
Tuesday is the primary day of the new school year and buses had been able to roll on greater than 700 routes within the predawn hours.
Superintendent Dr. Vickie Cartwright mentioned mother and father will have the ability to monitor their kid’s bus with a new app. It’s referred to as “Here Comes the Bus” and fogeys can join on-line.
“We do have a bus driver on every one of our routes this morning. That is a permanent bus driver, rather than a substitute or combined bus routes. We are 100 percent staffed on that. In addition to that, today in every one of our core academic classes we have a certified teacher in front of our students providing instruction on day one,” mentioned Cartwright throughout a cease on the bus depot in Pompano Beach.
Parents whose youngsters want a laptop computer ought to examine with their school. They can problem laptops to students who want them.
Cafeterias will probably be open utilizing conventional meals service traces.
The district mentioned it’s going to present breakfast and lunch meals for free of charge for all students at 167 eligible colleges. Families won’t want to finish an software to take part.
The remaining 61 colleges will resume free breakfast for all students, underneath the Universal Free Breakfast Program. Students may qualify without spending a dime lunch meals or reduced-price lunch meals for 4 cents primarily based on their eligibility.
Broward County Public Schools is the second largest school district within the state and the sixth largest within the nation.
