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Newsby Nicole SchlosserMay 28, 2021

National Pupil Transportation Associations Make Changes to Conference Plans

The National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services reassesses details, will change location. The National Association for Pupil Transportation pivots to a series of events, starting in Texas in October.

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Newsby Nicole SchlosserMay 17, 2021

NSTA Calls for Continued Help With School Bus Driver Shortage

The National School Transportation Association supports states that end enhanced unemployment benefits and a proposed bill to redirect the benefits to signing bonuses for new hires to incentivize employment.

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Newsby Sadiah Thompson May 13, 2021

Canadian Student Transportation Group to Launch School Bus Safety Pilot

Toronto Student Transportation Group is working with Gatekeeper Systems Inc. and United Safety and Survivability Corp. to install safety solutions, including internal and stop-arm cameras, on some of its school buses.

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NewsApril 30, 2021

Georgia District Adopts CalAmp’s Contact Tracing, Communications, Fleet Management Solutions

Marietta City Schools, which was recently included in a CDC study on COVID-19 transmission in a school environment, is now using the Bus Guardian platform.

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Articlesby Nicole SchlosserApril 28, 2021

5 Questions: Keith Terry on Supporting Employees, Illegal Passing Concerns

Terry, the director of transportation at Orangeburg County (S.C.) School District, discusses providing material and emotional support during the pandemic, and frustration with motorists passing stopped school buses even with the presence of stop-arm cameras.

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School Bus Fleet BlogApril 22, 2021

Strategic Plan Will Pave the Way to Yellow Bus’s Future

As the industry gets more experience managing post-pandemic operations, it has seen what changes will become the new normal. To that end, the National School Transportation Association is forming a strategic plan that will guide it over the next few years and beyond.

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ArticlesApril 21, 2021

School Bus Contractor’s 75th Anniversary Brings Biggest Test Yet

W.L. Roenigk Inc. has transported Pennsylvania students for three-quarters of a century. But at that milestone, the company faced a major threat to survival: the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Articlesby Sadiah Thompson April 12, 2021

Maximizing Clean Air, Surface Technologies for Safe School Bus Operations

Suppliers provide insight on the latest air filtration offerings to combat harmful bacteria and airborne viruses like COVID-19 on the bus and how the technology can supplement operators’ daily safety procedures.

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Newsby Sadiah Thompson April 7, 2021

New York District Pilots 2 School Bus Disinfecting Systems

Southampton Union Free School District is testing Trans Mist and Spray Safe System 19, which can mechanically sanitize buses between routes.

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Getting Back to Full Speed: What Do You Need?

Momentum is growing to return to full operation. For pupil transporters, that means addressing potentially greater driver shortage, factoring in the added responsibilities of sanitizing the buses — possibly as a permanent practice — and returning to managing more staff members in person.

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