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The purchases will be put off this year due to anticipated budget cuts stemming from the federal sequester. Officials at two agencies that run Head Start programs in the state say that they don’t yet know the extent to which their budgets will be impacted. The Patriot Ledger reports that the sequester reduced the budget for Head Start by 5%.
Read More →Director Patrick Willi and others from School Training Solutions, which provides online school bus driver training, set out on a 263-mile ride from New Orleans to Pensacola Beach, Fla., on April 5. Willi says that he hopes to use his experiences and stories from the bicycle relay to encourage road awareness and safety.
Read More →Sandra "Sandy" Monteferrario passed away on March 29 after battling cancer. In 1967, she began working at Bergen-Passaic Transport Service and continued her career there for 35 years before retiring.
Read More →The training was provided for Dallas County Schools’ technicians by Hydrotex, Stewart & Stevenson and Alternator Service. Officials say Hydrotex provided training on the principles of lubrication, Stewart & Stevenson provided training on Allison transmissions and Alternator Service provided instruction on a battery and charging system.
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A school district and a bus dealership in Indiana have combined efforts to develop a retrofit for school buses that they say enhances safety. The alarm sounds if a driver unfastens his or her seat belt and has not engaged the air brake parking system.
Read More →The IC Bus University classes will be held from June to August at the school bus manufacturer’s plant in Tulsa, Okla. The program aims to optimize service and maintenance proficiency and to broaden technician knowledge of IC Bus products.
Read More →Darlene Marshall with Fauquier County Public Schools is the latest person to complete the National Association for Pupil Transportation's (NAPT) Special Needs Transportation Training Program. The program has a core curriculum that consists of six special-needs courses, and it is supplemented by two courses of elective instruction from the NAPT Professional Development Series Program.
Read More →The school bus contractor’s Lake Villa, Ill., terminal provides shuttle bus service for the Lake Bluff Polar Plunge, and 15 employees participate in the plunge, raising the money for Special Olympics Illinois.
Read More →Footage from the September incident released last month shows Stephanie Wilkerson thrusting her left foot forward, and it makes contact with an autistic child on the bus’ stairs, who then falls. Wilkerson was fired from her position at a Florida district following the incident, and she faces a charge of aggravated child abuse.
Read More →Transfinder publishes the new book by Dan Roberts, who has 40 years of experience in school transportation. Roberts says that the concepts in the book "were developed through years of dealing with issues and seeking better ways to operate transportation departments."
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