HOUSTON, Texas – Tuesday, Aug. 12, is the first day of school for students who attend classes in the Houston Independent School District.

In a new partnership with METRO, the district is offering FREE METRO bus rides for qualifying high schoolers. HISD had hoped about 1,000 students would sign up for the Metro bus option, but so far, a little under that number, about 800 students, have signed up.

New Houston ISD-METRO partnership offers free public transit for high schoolers

HISD is the largest school district in Texas by enrollment and the sixth largest in the United States. Despite a budget approximately $50 million smaller than last year, about 20,000 HISD students still rely on bus transportation to get to school.

“It is expensive. It is inefficient in many cases. And so we’ve sta

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