Tara Spencer sits on the porch of her apartment on Creighton Road with her daughters, from left, Dionicia, 8, La-Taja, 6, and Japria, 12.
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School bus plan raises safety concerns
Tara Spencer stands on her porch in the Creighton Court public housing community each school day and watches as her 12-year-old daughter, Japria, waits about 20 yards down the street to catch the bus to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School where she is a sixth-grader.