NOTICE TO
PARENTS/GUARDIANS
Parent(s)
or legal guardian(s) who must provide transportation to and from school because
free transportation is not available for their children may be eligible to
receive money from the state to help offset some of the cost, for example, bus
fares, or mileage reimbursement for private automobiles at the current rate set
by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Call the PHGS office at 686-8809 for this rate.
If
you can answer yes to the following questions for the current school year, you
maybe eligible to receive reimbursement for providing such transportation.
1)
Will the pupil be under the age of 21 at the close of the school year?
2)
Is the pupil a full-time student in grades Kindergarten through 12?
3)
Does the pupil either live 1 1/2 miles or more from school or 1ive less than 1
1/2 miles from school but must be transported due to a serious
safety hazard approved by the Illinois Department of Transportation? (See
following paragraphs.)
4)
Does the pupil attend a school within Illinois, which meets Illinois compulsory
attendance laws?
5)
Did the parent/guardian incur transportation expenses resulting from
transporting the pupil to and from school?
6)
Did the pupil not have access to transportation to and from school provided
entirely at public expense?
7) Did the parent/guardian
reside within Illinois during the time period expenses were incurred?
If
you answered yes to the above questions, lived in Illinois, and wish to file a
claim, you must go to the school where each of your children is enrolled by
June 30th at the end of this school year, to submit claim information.
You may provide claim information to appropriate school personnel at your
child's attendance center until June 30, at the end of this school year.
In
addition, parent(s)/guardian(s) who have pupils living less than 1 1/2 miles
from the school attended must verify that a safety hazard due to vehicular
traffic exists by completing an Application for Determination of Serious Safety
Hazards. Parents can obtain a copy of the Application for Determination of
Serious Safety Hazards from the Office of the Regional Superintendent of
Schools for the county in which they reside except parents residing within the
City of Chicago. Chicago residents can receive a copy of the Application for
Degeneration of Serious Safety Hazards from the Illinois State Board of
Education, Division of Funding and Disbursement Services, 100 North First
Street, Springfield, IL 62777. All applications for Determination of Serious
Safety Hazards must be received no later than February 1, of this school year,
at the office from which the application was requested. Example: ISBE (ROE
(Illinois residents other than those residing in Chicago). The Regional
Superintendent of Schools is required to send the Application to the Illinois
Department of Transportation within 15 days. The Illinois Department of
Transportation reviews and approves or denies the application and returns it to
the Regional Superintendent of Schools within 30 days. Upon receipt of the
reviewed application, the Regional Superintendent of Schools will mail it to
the parent/guardian who requested the safety hazard be verified. If the
safety hazard is approved, the parent or guardian must go to the school their
child attends to submit the information. Parents who received verification
of a safety hazard during and after the last school year school year, whose
children attend the same school and live at the same address, do not have to
reapply for safety hazard verification.
Once
all claim information is submitted at the school, it will be transmitted electronically
to the Illinois State Board of Education. If your claim information is
approved, you should receive a check directly from the state for the lesser of
the cost of transporting your child/children or the average per pupil
reimbursement paid to public schools for transporting regular education pupils.
If insufficient funds are appropriated by the General Assembly, all claims will
be prorated.
If
you have any questions, please call (686-8809) or come to the Peoria Heights
Grade School as soon as possible.