FORT MYERS, Fla. — On Jan. 23, Paula Backus, a bus driver for Lee County Public Schools’ West Zone transportation office, was named the district’s 200...
Read More →As the comment period neared its end in late January for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) proposal to enhance school bus p...
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of a congressional security committee expressed concern to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about its lack of prog...
Read More →ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In a new twist to a case pitting transit agency against school bus contractor, a judge in late January struck down a decision by the...
Read More →As you may have guessed by now, the copy of SCHOOL BUS FLEET you’re looking at is our annual Special-Needs Issue. We’ve devoted our February ed...
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It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, and you are startled from a sound sleep by the sound of your telephone ringing. As you hesitantly answer the call, half...
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Imagine that you are a dispatcher for a school district. One day, you receive a message from a bus driver via radio transmission indicating that he or...
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Among areas of focus of school transportation litigation, the transportation of students with disabilities is especially complex. The use of Child Saf...
Read More →Students with special needs make up a relatively small segment of the pupil transportation population, but the complexities involved deserve increased attention. To assess current challenges and trends, we posed the following questions to experts. Here's what they said.
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Katie Scholes of Provider Enterprises, which has transported special-needs children for more than 25 years, proves that sometimes it takes one to know...
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