OSTA bus boss takes leave of absence
WEST CARLETON – The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) boss who recently kicked Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly out of a school bus meeting is taking a leave of absence from her job.
Read moreWEST CARLETON – The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) boss who recently kicked Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly out of a school bus meeting is taking a leave of absence from her job.
Read moreWEST CARLETON – The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) says they made gains in the current school bus shortage which has led to the cancellation of dozens of routes across Ottawa and denied hundreds of students in West Carleton public transportation to school, but Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly says it isn’t enough for those parents who still have to rearrange their workdays to make sure their kids get to school.
Read moreOTTAWA – Former general manager of the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) Vicky Kyriaco, is suing the school bus organization for more than $800,000 for allegedly dismissing her in “bad faith” and for damaging her health, career and reputation.
Read moreWEST CARLETON – Embattled Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) general manager Vicky Kyriaco is making her current leave of absence permanent.
Read moreOTTAWA – The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) won’t compensate parents and guardians whose lives have been upended for almost two months having to drive their kids to or from school or in many cases both, because the transportation agency failed to fulfil its mandate.
Read moreWEST CARLETON – Nearly two months after the start of the school year, West Carleton parents are still scrambling to get their kids to school, and in some cases, can’t even get their kids to school.
Read moreWEST CARLETON – Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly received an apology from the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) following his ousting from a Sept. 13 meeting on the ongoing lack of available school busing issue.
Read moreThe OSTA’S solution to bus shortage is to suggest the school board’s change the start and finish time of the school day. Is that not just transferring yet another pressure into the parents?
Read moreOTTAWA – As parents continue to miss work, act as taxi drivers and shuttle their children across God’s green acre to get their kids to school on time three weeks after the start of the school year despite paying for that service through their taxes, Carleton MPP Goldie Ghamari calls the situation “unacceptable.”
Read moreNEPEAN – Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly was virtually excused from a school board meeting last night (Sept. 13), logging in to advocate for parents abandoned by the join school board’s transportation organization, failing at getting kids to school this year.
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