The East Valley Institute of Technology will help cover transportation costs for students coming from nearby school districts.
The districts have a partnership with the publicly funded trade school to offer career and technical education courses to high school students, but are in an ongoing legal battle over allocation of funds.
EVIT Superintendent Chad Wilson said the school will supplement $2 million.
“That cost from the member districts was roughly $4 million. And so we offered to pay half that cost so that those students can have the opportunity that they were committed to being given last fall,” Wilson said.
EVIT agreed to split the costs after the districts said they would discontinue transportation services next school year.
Wilson said the school will be forced to pause their main campus renovations to accommodate this expense.
“To not provide transportation will clearly hurt families that don't have the means to be able to get the transportation on their own, right?" Wilson said.
Chandler Unified School District said in a statement the cost of providing transportation to the program pulls funding from classrooms and teacher staffing.
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