The Clairton City School District must provide school buses to charter school students rather than using public transportation, at least for now, an Allegheny County judge ruled last week.

Judge Chelsa Wagner, in a Friday order, issued an emergency injunction that temporarily blocked Clairton City’s plan to provide almost 120 charter school students with Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus passes. Instead, the district must offer traditional school buses to those students until a full evidentiary hearing is held Oct. 17.

Clairton Superintendent Tamara Allen-Thomas and Joseph Cavrich, the lawyer representing Clairton, did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

Parent Deonna Jackson, a plaintiff in the lawsuit and parent of two kindergartners who attend Propel McKeesport, told the

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