DAYTON — A Franklin County judge has made a ruling on Dayton high school students using city buses to get to school.
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Dayton Public Schools (DPS) announced Friday afternoon that the Franklin County Court granted its request for an extended preliminary injunction regarding the purchase of RTA bus passes for students.
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The ruling allows the district to continue buying RTA passes for high school students for the entire 2025-26 school year.
“We are grateful to our parents, staff, students, and community members for their ongoing support throughout this process. We’d like to especially thank the parents and community members who took time out of their day to attend and testify at the hearing in Columbus. Thanks to this decision, all DPS students in grades 9-12 will continue to have reliable access to transportation through RTA,” Superintendent Dr. David Lawrence said in a statement.
The case is scheduled to continue in court next year.
“We’re going to be even more ready for this fight moving forward because we believe that every child should have an opportunity to go to school and utilize the public transit system, because that is what it is for, the public,” Dr. Chrisondra Goodwine, DPS School Board president, said Friday afternoon.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, Goodwine and other district leaders spoke at a press conference about the ruling on Friday.
“I would suggest that any attempt to stop them from getting to school is an attack on public education and an attack on our progress,” Lawrence told media outlets. “We’ve worked very hard to move the needle here academically, to create outcomes, pathways, and possibilities for students.”
Parents and guardians told News Center 7 that they’re glad to know what will happen the rest of this school year. Some of those parents, though, aren’t sure that using the Hub, or RTA in general, is the best long-term solution.
“They need to find a solution soon for next year, because what about next year? What about the year after that?” one woman said while waiting to pick up her niece at Ponitz High School on Friday.
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