Trotwood-Madison works on bus schedule for students displaced by tornadoes

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Trotwood-Madison students go back to school on Monday, but the district is already facing several challenges ahead of their arrival.

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Less than two weeks before the start of the school year Trotwood-Madison’s superintendent resigned. Director of Operations Marlon Howard is taking over until a replacement is found.

The district is also working to find a way to bus students who were displaced by Memorial Day tornadoes to school.

Currently, the district has two buses set aside to transport those students to school.

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Board President Denise Moore said that nothing has changed with the district’s plan because they still don’t know where all of the displaced students are or will be. In fact, she said some students have just recently moved further away.

She did say that she’s heard from several parents that are going to drive their kids to school, at least at the start of the year.

Moore siad the district won’t be able to finalize any plans for busing the students until after school starts and when they have a better idea of where the students will be living.

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As the buses and students go back to school, that mean that the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center set up at the high school to help tornado victims will close at 7 p.m. today.

Anyone still in need of assistance can go to the center at Dayton Children’s Hospital. The deadline to apply for assistance was recently pushed back to Sept. 3.

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