Sentences with phrase «in school bus transportation»

In order for children to be safe while participating in school bus transportation, they must understand how to be safe before, during, and after they are riding on the bus.

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The Department of Transportation says both buses will operate in Metro Moncton with one assigned to the Anglophone East School District while the other will be used by the Francophone South District.

Families should plan accordingly when considering this deadline and should complete applications well in advance of April 1st if relying on bus transportation from their school district.

The new laws «covers a big loophole in student school bus transportation that we were greatly concerned about,» said Jon Terry, founder of the Allergy Advocates Association, which is based near Rochester, in a statement.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino will kick off an unusual upstate tour in Albany today, eschewing the old - school campaign bus for a more unorthodox form of transportation: A houseboat.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

«Public transportation is vital to the communities of eastern Queens, where most live in a transit desert, having limited access to trains and relying heavily on buses to get to work, school or important appointments,» Rozic said.

Other transportation proposals include procurement reforms to reduce sealed bids for MTA contracts; requirements that all backseat automobile passengers wear seat belts, and children under age 8 be properly restrained in school buses; and removal of legal barriers to encourage self - driving car manufacturers to operate in New York.

But if you're riding the bus to a public high school here in the City of Buffalo and it's your only mode of transportation, you don't ride the bus by choice.

This winter, swings in temperature took a toll on many roads in Erie County creating potholes and safety concerns for drivers, especially school bus drivers and emergency responders who are responsible for the safe transportation of students and patients.

The grant was awarded in conjunction with the National School Transportation Association's (NSTA) Go Yellow, Go Greennational campaign that encourages cleaner operation of school buses through the reduction of school bus idling and the implementation of the latest clean diesel technolSchool Transportation Association's (NSTA) Go Yellow, Go Greennational campaign that encourages cleaner operation of school buses through the reduction of school bus idling and the implementation of the latest clean diesel technolschool buses through the reduction of school bus idling and the implementation of the latest clean diesel technolschool bus idling and the implementation of the latest clean diesel technologies.

Children in the East Ramapo and Ramapo Central School Districts are getting cleaner running bus fleets through a grant program awarded to Chestnut Ridge Transportation from the EPA.

The state auditors said the district did not apply for all transportation state aid for new bus acquisitions, school club collections were not supported by adequate documentation and were not always deposited in the amounts received, and the central treasurer made 31 disbursements totaling $ 39,134 without state - required supporting documentation.

Five Star Transportation Inc. provides quality School Bus transportation services in Western Massachusetts, Transportation Inc. provides quality School Bus transportation services in Western Massachusetts, transportation services in Western Massachusetts, United States.

«They had door - to - door transportation,» Mary «Neva» Helms, recalls of the free bus service provided at the time by the Jefferson Parish, La., school district to private school children in this large suburban area outside New Orleans.

At 87 miles, it is the longest daily school - bus ride in the country, according to the National School Transportation Associschool - bus ride in the country, according to the National School Transportation AssociSchool Transportation Association.

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Districts often stagger the start times of different schools in order to reduce transportation costs by using fewer buses.

Federal and state prosecutors in New Jersey have charged a dozen school officials and bus contractors in a widening statewide investigation of corruption in the pupil - transportation industry.

Start times for schools in the district are proposed by the transportation department (which also determines bus schedules) and approved by the school board.

LACES makes an effort to get all parents involved in their children's learning by providing buses for people without their own transportation so they can attend school functions and meetings.

In addition to this «general» or «formula» funding, states also typically provide revenue for other, more specific purposes, such as bus transportation, contributions to school employee pension plans, and teacher training.

When school districts have tried to put local requirements in a charter agreement, such as a concrete justification of need, required bus transportation, a reflective student body, or location in an impoverished area, rules have been tightened to disallow restrictions.

According to School Bus Fleet, a school transportation publication, 34.7 percent of school transportation services were contracted in the 2012 - 13 schoolSchool Bus Fleet, a school transportation publication, 34.7 percent of school transportation services were contracted in the 2012 - 13 schoolschool transportation publication, 34.7 percent of school transportation services were contracted in the 2012 - 13 schoolschool transportation services were contracted in the 2012 - 13 schoolschool year.

Superintendent Conley, who has a daughter at the high school, says she is «absolutely in favor» of later starting times for teens but that there are «lots of moving parts» including bus schedules, staffing, athletics, clubs, and transportation costs.

Deputy Superintendent Ken Otero noted budget and transportation issues forced the outcome, together with concerns that elementary or middle school students would have to wait for buses in the dark, after - school activities would be interrupted, and the magnet schools lacked the ability to change start times.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

These figures further support the trend seen over the last few years of rising school transportation costs, reflecting additional expenditures many systems are incurring in busing a rapidly growing school - age population and more special - needs students.

For instance, at May Elementary the PTA could fund tickets to an event but not the bus for transportation, and at Blue Valley Middle School in Overland Park, Kan., the district will not provide financial support for the upkeep of new technology.

Because transportation is an issue for many parents and busing for interdistrict schools can be quite complicated and time - consuming, a school far outside the city in the suburbs may be less accessible to many families.

Transportation Information to assist school districts, school bus contractors, transit agencies, and farm labor vehicle operators in providing the safest and most efficient transportation services for their passengers Transportation Information to assist school districts, school bus contractors, transit agencies, and farm labor vehicle operators in providing the safest and most efficient transportation services for their passengers transportation services for their passengers and customers.

Such was the case in Little Rock, Arkansas, where educators and administrators had long believed that children who lived far away from school were often absent, despite the fact that they were provided bus transportation.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

In fact, SNA sends busses to the apartment complexes where many refugees live (without any transportation reimbursements that school districts receive), just so these refugee children can get to school.

A charter school and the sending district shall meet to plan bus routes and charter school starting and ending times in order to assist the district with cost effective means of transportation.

Excel Academy Charter Schools is seeking a transportation vendor to provide daily bussing between Chelsea and East Boston and regular extra-curricular bussing in the Boston area for the 2017 - 2018 school year.

Schools in Westchester, Putnam and the Upper Counties that rely on public school districts for bus transportation will follow the delayed opening or closing policy of the local district.

In N.J. children enrolled in private or parochial schools within twenty miles of their home have the right to transportation (although not courtesy busing, which Lakewood supplies) or «aid in lieu of transportation» (an annual payment of $ 884In N.J. children enrolled in private or parochial schools within twenty miles of their home have the right to transportation (although not courtesy busing, which Lakewood supplies) or «aid in lieu of transportation» (an annual payment of $ 884in private or parochial schools within twenty miles of their home have the right to transportation (although not courtesy busing, which Lakewood supplies) or «aid in lieu of transportation» (an annual payment of $ 884in lieu of transportation» (an annual payment of $ 884).

As one of the poorest school districts in the state and very limited funding for student transportation, the grant will be utilized to purchase and install three special needs buses and one athletic bus with video surveillance cameras.

The «Act» required DOT Agencies to implement drug testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in the aviation, trucking (including school bus drivers, and certain limousine and van drivers), railroads, mass transit, and pipelines industries.

Children can be hurt by busing, not simply by the inconvenience of the transportation process itself, but also by the transition from a school environment in which they have grown secure to strange surroundings in which they are likely to find themselves in a racial minority for the first time.

It's pretty straightforward with Student Transportation Inc. (TSX: STB)(NASDAQ: STB): It operates thousands of school buses in hundreds of counties across the continent.

This is a letter I just finished and submitted to the Fort Wayne, IN newspaper editor: Gov. Pence continues to gut our public school subsidies, forcing Indiana public schools to make unpopular decisions, including school bus transportation route changes, which has left many parents justly enraged.

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But if you want to punish your kid for being too loud or disruptive on a school bus or other kind of public transportation, then Busdriver should be a good game to sit him / her down in front of and show that it's difficult enough for the driver as it is.

In school transportation vehicles (buses and vans, not kids being taken to and from school in their family vehicle), around 16 kids 5 to 18 years old are killed per year, and 14 high school students die directly or indirectly as a result of footbalIn school transportation vehicles (buses and vans, not kids being taken to and from school in their family vehicle), around 16 kids 5 to 18 years old are killed per year, and 14 high school students die directly or indirectly as a result of footbalin their family vehicle), around 16 kids 5 to 18 years old are killed per year, and 14 high school students die directly or indirectly as a result of football.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an average of 19 students are killed in a school bus or other school transportation - related collision every year in the United States.

Like public or charter bus transportation, school bus accidents are very serious because of the number of school bus passengers who, in most cases, are unsupervised and unrestrained children.

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According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data collected over more than a decade, around 65 percent of people killed in school - transportation related accidents die after being hit by a school bus.