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GRAHAM — For 26 years, Beverly Kerr has operated Storybook Farm daycare out of her home. Each school day, several buses dropped off kids from Alamance Burlington Schools at the daycare.

"We had six buses coming through and occasionally a special ed bus would come bring children with special needs to us," said Kerr.

But this year only two buses make the stop.

"So the end result for us was instead of having about 25 to 30 children a day, we now have about 3 children a day," said Kerr.

Officials from the Alamance Burlington School Board said the decision to cut bus stops at day cares was made over the summer in an effort to save money.

"We have been charged with wise usage of tax payer money and this only applied to a couple daycares that were using it.. that were even aware of the policy. So the board had a very extensive sometimes difficult discussion on how to handle this and we came to the conclusion that it was not right to continue to subsidize transportation to daycares," said Jackie Cole, chair of Alamance-Burlington School Board.

The school system hasn't eliminated daycare drop offs all together. But with the number of kids in her care at Storybook Farm dramatically lower, Kerr said it is an issue for her business. She is hopeful school leaders will reconsider the policy.

"Our hope is that parents can send their children where they choose and that home daycares like us, little businesses can stay in business and that the children can be happy and be where they want to be because right now they're not,” said Kerr.

School leaders said complaints about the policy change have been minimal.