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Newsby StaffMarch 4, 2011

Updated diabetes guide available

Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel provides school personnel (including transportation managers and bus drivers), parents and students with a team approach for helping students manage their diabetes in a school setting. The guide includes revised information on such topics as training for school personnel.

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Articlesby Kelly AguinaldoMarch 1, 2011

The benefits of mainstreaming

Industry professionals say that having special-needs students ride regular-education routes can be cost effective and help the students learn self-advocacy.

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ArticlesMarch 1, 2011

Special-needs transportation: Looking back while facing forward

An expert on transporting students with special needs reflects on changes in the transportation of special-needs students over the past 25 years.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 22, 2011

Trans Tech Bus adds dealer

Leonard Bus Sales, which has four locations in New York state, joins the Type A manufacturer’s network.

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Articlesby Kelly AguinaldoFebruary 17, 2011

Operation Focuses on Efficient, Personal Service

The staff at Educational Service District 112’s Specialized Transportation Cooperative in Vancouver, Wash., monitors its growth to cost-effectively meet the needs of its member schools and school districts. Students are provided with customized transportation to maximize their safety.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 17, 2011

Special-needs course draws praise

A training program for special-needs drivers from the School Bus Safety Co. has been earning high marks from pupil transportation professionals. One calls it "a wonderful course that covers every issue in transporting students with special needs."

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ArticlesFebruary 15, 2011

Turning unsung heroes into ‘sung’ heroes

Training isn’t the only factor at work in these situations. In some cases, the heroes were spurred into action by instincts — and their desire to help others.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 14, 2011

GM unveils propane option for cutaways

For the 2012 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cutaway 3500 and 4500 vans, GM will offer a “one-stop-shop” approach that delivers a vehicle with a complete LPG fuel system. The cutaways can be converted to various school bus, commercial, shuttle bus and RV requirements.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 8, 2011

Special-needs transportation veteran to retire

Cheryl Wolf will step down from her school district position next month but will remain active in the industry as a consultant. She reflects on her career and discusses her plans in an interview with SBF.

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ArticlesFebruary 7, 2011

Understanding Children With Autism

An expert on the disorder explains the reasons behind students’ disruptive or inappropriate behavior and offers tips for how pupil transporters can respond to improve the quality of students’ lives in and outside the school bus.

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