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School transportation providers are among those writing to Congress to keep the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act program running. They urge legislators to allocate $50 million for fiscal year 2012.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire wants to remove funding for the state’s five regional transportation coordinators and use the state’s Transportation Vehicle Fund to support a new funding formula. Washington Association for Pupil Transportation President Tom Culliton discusses with SBF the effect the proposals would have and what the association has done to spread the word about them.
Read More →Officials from Branchburg Township School District and Readington Township Public Schools expect each of the districts to save at least $70,000 under the first year of the agreement. Branchburg will provide the transportation supervisor, and Readington will provide the dispatcher. Maintenance of the buses will be shared.
Read More →George Gregory Gonsalves and Emel Enrique Marin each had a valid commercial driver's license in one name and a suspended license in another. They have been charged with offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and falsifying business records in the second degree.
Read More →North Kansas City Schools' transportation department earns the award from the Missouri Highway Patrol for the 15th consecutive year after receiving a fleet inspection rating of 99.4 percent. The transportation director says that of the more than 100 items inspected on each of the district's buses, only one "slightly loose item" prevented the district from earning a perfect score of 100.
Read More →Author Jodee Blanco, who penned Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story about her years as a student outcast, will give a keynote presentation during the event in Cincinnati in October. Blanco also developed a bullying prevention program called It’s NOT Just Joking Around!
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After a missing "at" in Virginia's law on school bus stop-arm running allowed a motorist to avoid conviction, legislation was introduced to clarify the wording. It was signed by the governor last week and went into effect immediately.
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The state directors association says that the site aims to provide its members and others in the pupil transportation community an improved, subject-based source of information.
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The legislation, which was rejected by the House in January, is brought back under a motion to reconsider it, and an amended version is eventually passed. The bill allows school boards to sell advertising space on the exterior sides of buses.
Read More →The school bus contractor provides seven buses and has nine employee volunteers to help out at Special Olympics Illinois’ annual Polar Plunge. In other news, the company wins contracts for school districts in Wisconsin and Illinois.
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