A group that advocates private school students using public school transportation is asking Norfolk officials to consider providing such an arrangement.

Share the Ride wants the Norfolk school division to formally study what it would take to give private school students a ride to school.

Legislation signed by the governor last year gives local school boards the option of renting or lending buses to private schools or providing transportation for their students.

George McVey, president of the Virginia Council for Private Education, says no school division has agreed to transport private students.

John Langlois, with Share the Ride, says his group chose Norfolk because it's a smaller city and many of the private schools "are located conveniently to public schools."

Norfolk School Board Chairman Barry Bishop says he supports further discussion about a study. He says challenges to bus-sharing include a shortage of bus drivers and Norfolk's complex daily school bus schedule.