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ArticlesFebruary 1, 2008

Parental Experience Drives Provider

Katie Scholes of Provider Enterprises, which has transported special-needs children for more than 25 years, proves that sometimes it takes one to know...

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Articlesby StaffFebruary 1, 2008

Experts Weigh In on Special-Needs Issues

Students with special needs make up a relatively small segment of the pupil transportation population, but the complexities involved deserve increased attention. To assess current challenges and trends, we posed the following questions to experts. Here's what they said.

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ArticlesFebruary 1, 2008

Safety Devices on School Buses: Harnessing Legal Issues

Among areas of focus of school transportation litigation, the transportation of students with disabilities is especially complex. The use of Child Saf...

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ArticlesFebruary 1, 2008

Special needs, special issue

As you may have guessed by now, the copy of SCHOOL BUS FLEET you’re looking at is our annual Special-Needs Issue. We’ve devoted our February ed...

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ArticlesJanuary 1, 2008

NAPT Gets Rolling in Grand Rapids

Pupil transportation officials waited anxiously outside the Grand Rapids, Mich., police department training facility as its Special Response Team evac...

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Articlesby StaffJanuary 1, 2008

8 Great Fleets in 2008

Family vision continues as bus company grows Birnie Bus Service, Rome, N.Y. It’s already been a long road for Tim Birnie, ow...

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ArticlesNovember 1, 2007

Fine-Tuning Special-Needs Training Programs

The highest risk time for lift-bus collisions, employee or student injuries or other incidents is with new drivers. Drivers obtaining their CDLs are q...

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Articlesby StaffSeptember 1, 2007

NCST committee gears up for 2010

RENO, Nev. — The National Congress on School Transportation (NCST) Steering Committee met in late July to process interim amendments to the Nat...

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Articlesby StaffJuly 1, 2007

Is it nature or nurture?

In his February editorial, SBF Editor Steve Hirano posed the following questions to readers: Are great special-needs bus drivers born, or can they ...

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Articlesby StaffApril 1, 2007

Special-needs pupil transporters go 'all out'

Over five days of conference sessions, three eight-hour companion programs and a roadeo, attendees of the 16th National Conference & Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities & Preschoolers demonstrated that they are indeed “Going All Out!” (the event’s theme) in their jobs.

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