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Dallas County Schools will provide the services for White Settlement (Texas) Independent School District beginning with the 2011-12 school year. Officials say the consolidation will enhance the White Settlement district's cost-saving efforts.
Read More →Officials at a Connecticut district say that schools can use travel agents to book field trips, but the district must be notified of the carrier, and registration and insurance coverage checks will be made. The news comes after 250 students were transported on tour buses for which the registration had lapsed and the insurance had been canceled.
Read More →Officials at Clark County School District in Las Vegas say the changes, which were made in response to $411 million in proposed budget cuts, will also increase bus routing efficiency. As part of the restructuring, approximately 200 routes will be eliminated.
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In his documentary film, which he discusses with SBF, Mark Kendall follows a bus that was auctioned off and taken to Guatemala. The bus ends up on a dangerous route in the highlands outside Guatemala City.
Read More →The Bus-Ed-Safe-TV monitors are being used as educational tools at a Texas school district. The monitors, which can be easily removed and placed in different buses, show content from the History Channel, the Learning Channel, NASA Space Center, the Discovery Channel and a quiz show channel.
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Radio Engineering Industries Inc. has added the SD40, a compact, solid-state digital video recorder, to its family of BUS-WATCH digital video surveillance systems. The SD40 can connect up to four surveillance cameras and has GPS and WiFi compatibility and eight-way sensor programming.
Read More →Industry veteran Dr. Ray Turner asks for input from transportation directors and supervisors on the problem of motorists passing stopped school buses. Results of the survey will be shared with participants and used to develop a bus driver training program.
Read More →The contractor provides shuttles for the filming of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. One shuttle was used for the volunteers helping to build the home. The other shuttle was used for spectators.
Read More →The bill would have allowed boards of trustees in Idaho to sell advertising space on the exterior of buses, but it failed in a House vote amid concerns that it would invite distracted driving.
Read More →The New Jersey State Bar Foundation's “Working It Out” program shows educators — including school bus drivers and pupil transportation officials — how to use conflict resolution lessons and the foundation’s curriculum guides to train students to be peer mediators. Its “Bullying and Teasing” program provides approaches for combating student bullying.
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