Sentences with phrase «student school bus transportation»

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.

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The student fee hikes include a $ 10 increase to $ 100 a year for transportation for students who live within 1.5 miles of the school but opt to ride the bus and a $ 5 raise to $ 33 a year for textbooks.

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Now that students have returned for a new school year, the New York State Department of Transportation is making sure school buses are safe.

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 situations are all too familiar: A student and teacher do not get along and the student's parents ask school officials to assign the child to a new classroom; a high - school student without the proper prerequisite course is turned away from a class for which the student thinks he or she is qualified; or, the transportation schedule has been modified and the bus driver is unwilling to stop at a corner, thereby saving a child an apparently unnecessary five - block walk.

[6] Research based on data from Washington, DC, which does not provide yellow bus transportation to most students, indicates that parents are willing to choose an elementary school that has proficiency rates that are 11 percentage lower if the school is one mile closer to them.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

Faced with daily referral slips for student misbehavior on two of the Milford (Massachusetts) Public Schools elementary school buses, a committee of principals, counselors, and transportation and bus company personnel decided last year students needed guidance and incentives to establish better bus - riding behavior.

Although officials last week said they had substantially recovered from the transportation crisis, they said they had been forced to reschedule the starting time of middle schools and to eliminate bus service for high - school students for two weeks.

Students living more than two miles from the school are eligible for bus transportation.

For school bus drivers, teachers, and transportation supervisors — learn what the building administrator, classroom teacher, and bus driver working together can do to improve student behavior on the ride to and from school.

[Charters] draw students from all over but we have to provide our own transportation, or parents rely on public transportation, because school districts do not make their buses available to charter schools.

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.

That's true for students whose parents drive them to school as well as for students who use buses or public transportation.

The Indiana Attorney General wrote that providing free bus transportation for parochial school students on the same basis as public school students does not violate Indiana's Blaine Amendment because any benefit to parochial schools is incidental to the protection and education of children.

South Dakota Attorney General opined that any statute requiring the transportation of private school students on public school buses would violate South Dakota's Blaine Amendments because the benefits received by the private schools would be more than «incidental.»

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.

Transportation is provided by school buses and vans for Central Falls and Pawtucket students while most Providence students take public buses (RIPTA) to get to SPIRIT.

And despite the fact that 90 percent of the students rode the bus to school, there was no transportation for the program, so very few students participated — especially not the ones who needed it most.

Besides the 2014 proficiency deadline, they also include requirements that schools declared failing must provide students with after - school tutoring and free bus transportation to better schools nearby.

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.

Because students lose transportation privileges (they have lost the trust to take a bus unsupervised), parents need to pick their child up from school.

«[Students] come from all over the city, from South Salem, West Salem, and we don't provide school transportation, and so they're coming by either parent transportation or most of them by city bus, public transportation.»

Taxicab transportation is provided for special needs students when mandated by an Individual Education Plan (IEP) and school vehicle is provided for students whose domicile or school does not allow them to be serviced by a regular school bus route or would be more economical.

The document stated Einstein's transportation practices also affect students with special needs, like wheelchair mobility, who will be less likely to select Einstein schools because of its lack of school bus service.

Private schools are not required to provide transportation services, and if they did, it would not be with the same regulations of public school busses and they are not required to provide food service for low - income students.

Einstein only provides RTA tokens for students to ride buses to and from school, but the district states the law requires charter schools to provide free, yellow bus transportation to 6th graders and under who live more than a mile from school.

We partner with Indianapolis Public Schools to provide bus transportation to our students.

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.

The KIPP Indy school day runs from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with buses arriving at school by 7:50 a.m. Unlike most charter schools, KIPP Indy offers free transportation to our students.

And even though school buses are the safest form of transportation there is, students are more likely to die of a transportation related cause at school than a shooting.

Among their concerns is what will happen when students who can easily walk or bike to community schools can only rely on buses for transportation.

Bus transportation is provided to elementary and middle school students within a school's designated transportation zone.

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.

School bus transportation at central cluster site locations will be available to students living more than one mile from the sSchool bus transportation at central cluster site locations will be available to students living more than one mile from the schoolschool.

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.

The Tennessee Arts Commission generously offers arts grants through the Student Ticket Subsidy Program that can be used to cover the cost of bus transportation when visiting the museum for a guided school tour.

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 football.

Students at Towson still get discounted MTA (public transportation) bus / rail passes and for those that agree to carpool, the school will give them four free parking passes that they can use at the local Towson Center.

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.

School bus drivers are responsible for students» safety and well being during their transportation to and from sSchool bus drivers are responsible for students» safety and well being during their transportation to and from schoolschool.