Uncertainty over how Akron Schools will transport homeless students, students with special needs

Legal questions loom for Akron Public Schools as the district works to determine how it will transport an estimated 1,200 homeless students and students with special needs to and from school when classes begin next month.

On Monday, the Akron Board of Education approved two resolutions giving the district permission to transport this population of students, as required by law. However, the board voted down a resolution that would outline how the district would do it.

“I’m glad that the school board decided to question some of the things that administration was saying in regards to the independent contractors,” Brandy Vickers told 3News.

Vickers is the spokesperson for what she says are more than 140 Independent Contract Operators (ICO) who transport students with special needs for APS.