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The South Dakota School Transportation Association names Theresa Mellen of Douglas School District its 2011 School Bus Driver of the Year. Mellen conducts bus safety classes and assists with first aid training. She also serves her community as a certified EMT and a foster parent.
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Magda Dimmendaal is inducted into the position during the association's Annual Meeting and Convention in Baltimore. She has more than 37 years of experience in the student transportation industry and is CEO of Dousman Transport in Dousman, Wis.
Read More →School buses in the U.S. safely shuttle some 24 million kids to and from school each day, but are the big, yellow vessels contributing to the education process in other ways?
Read More →A 15- and 16-year-old plead guilty and receive 60 days in a juvenile detention center in Lynchburg, Va., and probation for assaulting the student on a school bus. The bus driver is charged with felony child neglect for failing to intervene.
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Part 3 of this series focuses on spinal muscular atrophy, which is a group of inherited diseases that cause progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. Knowing how to carry passengers with this condition on an evacuation device and including a nurse in training drills will help to ensure their safety.
Read More →Richard Evans is sentenced to 25 years and four months in prison for picking up a special-needs student on his bus, pulling into a residential neighborhood and molesting her late last year. The crime was captured on surveillance tape.
Read More →Following his address at the NSTA meeting last week and a Love the Bus event in February, the U.S. transportation chief continues to spread the word about the advantages of pupil transportation. School bus service providers, he writes, “are connecting America's children with all of the great opportunities that come from the chance to learn, grow and succeed at school.”
Read More →Edwardsville School District 7 and Madison County Transit in Illinois are providing students with alternatives for transportation to school: SchoolPool, which helps parents and high school students meet people and develop carpools, and the Walking School Bus, in which groups of adults supervise students walking to school.
Read More →The state Board of Education votes unanimously to increase the bus fare for public school students from 50 cents to $1.25 for a one-way ride. The increase is needed to make up for a $9.6 million legislative cut in funding for student transportation.
Read More →Do you know an exemplary school transportation director who deserves some recognition for his or her efforts? We’re getting ready to select a recipient for our 2011 Administrator of the Year award, and we’re accepting nominations.
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