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Wes Platt
Former Executive Editor
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Former Executive Editor
[Archives] Join us in an open-ended conversation about children and school buses – and the people who bring them together from SBF's editorial team and guest authors.
We here at SBF visit pupil transportation facilities around Southern California throughout the year to chat with the staff and learn about the operation. Here, I’d like to share with you some of the things I learned during a visit to Orange Unified School District.
Read More →Over the past year, there has been a surge of pupil transportation stalwarts stepping down from their longtime posts, many of them state directors. Some are leaving the workforce altogether (at least for the time being), while others ...
Read More →In SBF's 2011 Special-Needs Survey, respondents report that 30 percent of their special-needs students are mainstreamed (i.e., ride regular-ed routes). I have a disability and in my opinion, when you have a disability, it boosts your self-esteem to be treated as “normally” as possible. It seems, then ...
Read More →SCHOOL BUS FLEET’s February 2011 issue features our annual Special-Needs Survey. This year, there was some information that we couldn’t fit in the survey for the print issue, so I’ll share it with you here.
Read More →The state is helping schools offset the cost of field trips to the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum with a new license plate. A portion of the fee for the plate goes to the museum for its Big Yellow School Bus Fund, a program developed to offer “bus scholarships” to help fund field trips to the museum.
Read More →It is by turns amusing and unsettling how much a small typo can alter the meaning of something. For example, maybe you’ve seen someone list his title as “assistant manger,” which would make him a trough for horses and cattle to eat from. ...
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