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Operation Focuses on Efficient, Personal Service

February 17, 2011

The staff at Educational Service District 112’s Specialized Transportation Cooperative in Vancouver, Wash., monitors its growth to cost-effectively meet the needs of its member schools and school districts. Students are provided with customized transportation to maximize their safety.

Washington district contracts with American Logistics Co.

September 7, 2010

The student transportation management company will serve Kent School District to provide service for 10 to 15 percent of the district’s hardest-to-serve McKinney-Vento students who have been displaced to remote areas inside and outside of district boundaries.

Grant offered to fund student field trips

August 26, 2010

The program, launched last year by NAPT President Linda Bluth and her partner, will give preference this year to applications that benefit homeless students in Washington and Oregon, although the award will be discretionary.

Bus drivers help provide stability for homeless children

April 16, 2010

Once a child is enrolled in Portland, Ore.'s Community Transitional School, he or she can continue to attend the school regardless of frequent address changes that would require transferring to another district. Bus routes are changed often to follow students' moves.

'Operation: Stuff the Bus' reaches 7th year

July 17, 2008

OCALA, Fla. — Marion County’s seventh annual “Operation: Stuff the Bus” campaign kicked off Saturday with donation collections at an area Wal-Mart st...

Navigating NCLB: The Latest on How the Law Impacts Pupil Transportation

February 1, 2005

Greater flexibility for states, school districts and schools —this is partly what President Bush had in mind when he signed into law the education ref...