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Mike Shedor will oversee the school bus contractor's Kansas and central Missouri territories, including locations in Jefferson City, Kansas City and Columbia in Missouri, and Olathe, Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley in Kansas. He will also coach staff on First Student's safety policies and training programs.
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In April 2021, Portland Public Schools split transportation between First Student and Student Transportation of America. STA has acknowledged it cannot provide the district with sufficient drivers or buses for 30 of its routes this school year.
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Read More →Officials say that the student’s private-duty nurse, who was with him on the bus, performed CPR, and a special-education assistant and the bus driver also tried to help. The student was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Read More →Safety Bus is based in Pennsauken, with a fleet of 106 vehicles managed by a team of 140 employees, serving school districts and charter customers.
Read More →Olathe Unified School District 233 awarded the company a new five-year contract to manage and operate more than 220 school bus routes.
Read More →After school last month, Jayman Washington boarded a bus that he does not normally take and the driver, who did not know that Washington had moved a week before, left him at his old residence where no one was home. The transportation department at the district where the driver works will now review its policies for dropping off students at its safety meetings.
Read More →Building relationships through good communication and receiving ongoing training are key to a school bus driver’s success in resolving challenging behavior.
Read More →The contractor will serve Flint Community Schools in a three-year agreement, adding 45 new buses to the fleet, and Saginaw Public Schools under a five-year agreement, adding 20 new buses to the fleet. In other news, parent company FirstGroup America hosts a delegation from the Arab state Oman to discuss best practices, including road safety, management and hiring.
Read More →The school transportation company led a $3.6 million Series A funding round to help Kango expand its student ridesharing and childcare services.
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