Saratoga Springs schools working on bike rules

New bike-to-school regulations for the city school district’s six elementary schools and Maple Avenue Middle School could be announced soon.
Planning committees at each of the schools buildings are busy developing regulations for those buildings, according to district officials.
The district’s old policy — forbidding students from riding their bikes to the elementary schools or Maple Avenue Middle School — was criticized by parents and community members as well as by people from across the country and even Canada via the Internet. Former House speaker and conservative author Newt Gingrich even sent the district a letter encouraging the school board to adopt a policy that encouraged biking and walking to school for the students’ health.
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