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Your district's "exception riders" — students with IEPs, those experiencing homelessness, foster care youth — deserve more than a middleman solution. This handbook breaks down exactly what to look for in a supplemental transportation partner: from driver vetting and regulatory compliance to proactive safety technology. Because getting a ride isn't the same as getting a safe one.
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Stock Transportation Ltd. gains 30 new drivers and 23 additional routes in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, after buying the student transportation division of McLellan Transportation Co. Ltd. McLellan has provided student transportation in the area since 1923.
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For fleets struggling to find the funds to buy alt-fuel vehicles, there is money available. The key to getting it is to formulate a plan, build relationships and pay attention to the details.
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Transportation staff at South-Western City Schools in Grove City, Ohio, develop the concept for the video, and it is filmed and edited with the help of a local camera crew. Transportation Supervisor Tim Cox discusses with SBF how the idea for the video came about, its content and more.
Read More →The Sanger, Texas, school bus driver is arrested and faces charges of abandonment and endangerment of a child criminal negligence in last week’s incident. The boy boarded the bus in the morning and wasn’t discovered until the afternoon.
Read More →A total of 351 community volunteers from 53 businesses and organizations participate in Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District’s program, which is designed to help new bus riders find their bus stops during the first few days of school. The program is a partnership between the district’s Volunteers in Public Schools and the Cy-Fair Houston Chamber of Commerce.
Read More →Perez will work for the state Office of School Transportation as bus driver instructor training program specialist. He previously served as instructor at San Dieguito Union High School District, and he has won the transit category in the School Bus Driver International Safety Competition for the past two years in a row.
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Cyberbaiting — when students taunt a teacher or bus driver to record their reaction — can lead to embarrassing online exposure. Here’s an overview of the problem and tips to help your drivers prevent it.
Read More →The superintendent of Belmond-Klemme Community School District says that at least seven students were on the bus when it was sprayed with what he believes was insecticide, and about 25 more students were then picked up. The district contacted parents, and students were taken to a local hospital as a precaution.
Read More →Following recommendations from the Department of Juvenile Justice, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Raymond Gross includes several conditions in the probation, such as electronic monitoring, community service and a requirement that the students transfer if they are assigned to the same school as the victim. Some say the sentence is too lenient.
Read More →Under the state’s budget that was approved earlier this summer, a school bus is eligible for replacement when it is either 20 years old or has been operated for 250,000 miles, up from 200,000 miles. While advocates of the changes say that it will save money and promote more efficient use of school buses, some industry officials express differing views.
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