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Officials at school systems around the state point to the costliness of the mandates, which include providing busing and other aid to children attending private schools as a benefit to those taxpayers. In response to officials’ complaints, Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened a statewide mandate-relief committee, and the Board of Regents has identified laws it considers outdated.
Read More →Dallas County Schools will provide the services for White Settlement (Texas) Independent School District beginning with the 2011-12 school year. Officials say the consolidation will enhance the White Settlement district's cost-saving efforts.
Read More →Deondrae Northcutt and his half-brother, Teddarrius Perry, are arrested and charged after Northcutt discharges a handgun during a gang-related altercation at a high school. The bullet misses his intended target and instead hits the girl.
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The Minnesota legislation seeks to mandate the devices on new school buses starting next year. State pupil transportation associations share their stances with SBF.
Read More →The Minnesota Association for Pupil Transportation’s new site offers an enhanced look and a variety of new features for its members and for the public. The group hopes to eventually provide access to training courses online.
Read More →Officials at Clark County School District in Las Vegas say the changes, which were made in response to $411 million in proposed budget cuts, will also increase bus routing efficiency. As part of the restructuring, approximately 200 routes will be eliminated.
Read More →Officials at a Connecticut district say that schools can use travel agents to book field trips, but the district must be notified of the carrier, and registration and insurance coverage checks will be made. The news comes after 250 students were transported on tour buses for which the registration had lapsed and the insurance had been canceled.
Read More →Industry veteran Dr. Ray Turner asks for input from transportation directors and supervisors on the problem of motorists passing stopped school buses. Results of the survey will be shared with participants and used to develop a bus driver training program.
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Radio Engineering Industries Inc. has added the SD40, a compact, solid-state digital video recorder, to its family of BUS-WATCH digital video surveillance systems. The SD40 can connect up to four surveillance cameras and has GPS and WiFi compatibility and eight-way sensor programming.
Read More →The Bus-Ed-Safe-TV monitors are being used as educational tools at a Texas school district. The monitors, which can be easily removed and placed in different buses, show content from the History Channel, the Learning Channel, NASA Space Center, the Discovery Channel and a quiz show channel.
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