The 13th year of the Legal Routes publication will be the last, as Editor-in-Chief Peggy Burns and Publisher Roseann Schwaderer announced the final issue will be September 2015.
Subscribers were informed in a letter enclosed with this month’s newsletter. Burns and Schwaderer said they are pursuing efforts to attract another company that would continue to make the database of pupil transportation law and compliance information available to a broader audience.
“As we take this step towards concluding our stewardship, we are humbled by the outpouring of complimentary comments from our subscribers,” Schwaderer said in a statement.
Burns quoted poet T.S. Eliot by promising subscribers, “As we wind down, we plan to go out with ‘a bang, not a whimper.'”
“In the remaining issues, you can bank on the same level of service and quality of information that you’ve always received from Legal Routes, and have come to rely on,” she added.
One particularly valuable feature offered by Legal Routes that Burns highlighted is a “Hotline to Peggy’s Desk,” whereby Burns answers questions that are emailed to her. The eight-page bimonthly report also includes the publication’s on-line service, Legal Routes + PLUS, which gives subscribers the ability to search a key word index and access any article ever published since Legal Routes began in July 2003. A Table of Legal Cases reported in the articles is also provided online. This wealth of data will continue to be available to active subscribers through at least the next year.
In addition to writing Legal Routes report, Burns said she will continue to be available to present at conferences, both live and remotely, through her company, Education Compliance Group. Schwaderer, who consults on the Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers National Conference (TSD Conference), added that she remains available to consult on state and local conferences and to provide editing and writing services through her company, Edupro Group.
Editor’s note – STN Media Group, which publishes School Transportation News magazine, owns the TSD Conference.
Meanwhile, Burns and Schwaderer said all current subscribers have the option to continue receiving the publication until the final issue next year. New subscriptions are being accepted for the annual $115 rate and can extend their subscription to include all issues through September 2015 for a prorated price. Subscription details can be obtained via email.
