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Newsby StaffOctober 14, 2010

School transportation workers unionize

Bus drivers and aides as well as crossing guards in Belvidere, Ill., vote to join the Teamsters union. The bargaining unit comprises 162 workers.

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ArticlesOctober 12, 2010

NAPT News & Views

Try to interest reporters in the hard news that affects our industry during the school year.

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Newsby StaffOctober 12, 2010

Former contractor returns to industry as consultant

Terry Van Der Aa, past winner of SBF's Contractor of the Year award, sold his contracting company Vancom Inc. to Laidlaw in the late 1990s. He now will join TransPar Group to provide his expertise in the area of labor relations.

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Newsby StaffOctober 12, 2010

ASBC offers presentations on school bus benefits

The industry coalition’s Yellow School Bus Champions program provides 5-, 10- and 30-minute presentations that are available for download. They cover the safety, educational and environmental advantages of school bus use.

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Newsby StaffOctober 12, 2010

'Driver of the Year' protected passenger from bully

In the winning entry of Thomas Built Buses' essay contest, second-grader Chancellor describes how his school bus driver, Lester LeMasters, came up with a plan to keep him from being bullied.

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Newsby StaffOctober 11, 2010

Indiana state troopers catch illegal bus passers

Authorities rode on three of Vigo County School Corp.’s school buses in late September and wrote three traffic citations for motorists who violated the state’s school bus stop arm law. The enforcement action stemmed from complaints made by the school system’s bus drivers about alleged illegal passing.

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Newsby StaffOctober 11, 2010

UPDATE: Driver in fatal Georgia bus crash lacked state certification

The trainee driver had passed the "S" endorsement written test and was undergoing the required hours of training. He had been scheduled to finalize his skills assessment for the endorsement last Wednesday, two days after the accident. The school district will now review the training for all of its bus drivers to ensure that they are fully certified.

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Newsby StaffOctober 7, 2010

Town receives ‘hundreds’ of fee-based bus transportation applications

The news comes from the chair of the Framingham (Mass.) School Committee. The committee will discuss the issue at a meeting on Thursday night and provide a detailed proposal regarding fees next Tuesday.

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Newsby StaffOctober 7, 2010

School bus trainer saves choking student

Oscar Juracan noticed that a boy on the bus was not breathing, and the trainer quickly responded to perform abdominal thrusts on the elementary student. Spring (Texas) ISD requires all of its trainers to take a CPR course.

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Newsby StaffOctober 7, 2010

Bus driver faces misdemeanor child abuse charge

The charge stems from an incident in August wherein a Nebraska school district driver dropped off a 6-year-old boy more than 15 miles from his home. A construction worker who found the boy crying as he walked out of town was able to call his mother and watch him while she came to pick up the boy.

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