Goal Is to Get Students Walking, Bicycling; State Using $4 Million to Help Kids Reach School Safely, Under Own Steam

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As children make their way back to classrooms, schools and municipalities in Wisconsin will start spending $4 million in federal transportation grants to encourage and help more of them make that trek by foot or bicycle.

Milwaukee Public Schools will spend the largest planning grant, $242,000, to teach 6,000 grade school and middle school students how to walk or bike to school safely.

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Goal Is to Get Students Walking, Bicycling; State Using $4 Million to Help Kids Reach School Safely, Under Own Steam

That such an educational program is deemed necessary suggests how much society has changed from a time in the late 1960s when more than half of the students in the country walked or bi...

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