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Dear Mr. Fanning:

You requested an opinion of this office on behalf of and as authorized by the Jefferson Parish School Board ("Board"), concerning the Board's obligation to provide free transportation to: (a) students attending magnet schools; and (b) the so-called "students on permits" who attend schools outside their attendance zones with the permission of the Board. We understand your issue to be whether a school board must provide, not whether it has the discretion to provide, free transportation to these two classes of students. You also seek a clarification reconciling the apparently…