Spokane Public Schools awarded a new five-year contract to Zum. The district first leveraged Zum's technology last fall by serving the district's special education students, McKinney Vento, and HEART program.
The latest expansion comes in the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD), where Zum has a contract of up to $8.8 million over five years to assist with special-education student transportation.
School transportation professionals benefit from training to make the most efficient use of equipment aboard their buses.
Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent headlines from schoolbusfleet.com - including the latest SBF special-needs transportation survey.
School buses are going to the dogs! No, not like that; for students with disabilities, service animals are critical support and are permitted both in schools and on the big yellow bus. Here’s how school districts can plan and prepare for a new furry passenger.
The 2023 survey, which will appear in the February print edition of School Bus Fleet, offers a glimpse of how special-needs transportation providers are faring and what challenges they face.
In this interview with School Bus Fleet, McGee-Hewitt shares what challenges the NAPT hopes to address in the coming year, as well as which pupil-transportation-related issues are on her radar, and what she believes pupil transportation will look like five years from now.
In 2022, highlights on the School Bus Fleet website included stories dealing with special-needs transportation, employee morale and retention, and CDL requirements in the midst of an ongoing school bus driver shortage.
Respondents are asked to fill out the survey no later than Jan. 3. Results will appear in the February edition of the magazine.
Todd Provino comes to the student transportation company with more than 20 years of customer care experience.
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