

And the township was not budgeted for all these extra expenses.

That meant that Lower Merion, like the other 500 districts, had to purchase dozens of new school buses, hire more bus drivers, pay for fuel and insurance, etc. Shapp decreed that every school district should have to transport students to Catholic schools, along with kids who were going to public schools. He agreed to change the rules about busing kids to school in order to placate the large number of Catholic members of the legislature. Governor Milton Shapp tried to appease the Republican caucus when he was in Harrisburg decades ago. It is always a good idea to look back in history, when attempting to understand or to solve a current problem.
