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Competing Challenges

This year, I have had multiple conversations with school district transportation and special education personnel regarding safety versus the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act...

Chicago’s School Transit System Under Strain, Threatens Student Access

Thousands of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students could soon be left without a safe or consistent way to get to class as both the...

HopSkipDrive Launches Specialty Transportation, Offering Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle Rides, New Rider Assistants, and Car Seat Program to Support Entirety of Schools’ Transportation Needs

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -HopSkipDrive today announced a significant expansion in its ability to meet the transportation needs of all students, enabling schools and school...

Update: 2022-2023 National School Bus Loading Zone Survey Reports 3 Fatalities

ARLINGTON, Va. — Motorists who illegally passed school buses in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin killed two students while a New York school bus struck and...

South Carolina Case Highlights Need for Attendants on School Buses

A special investigative report that aired in December on television station Queen City News in Charlotte, North Carolina, detailed a 2018 incident in neaby...

HopSkipDrive and Detroit Public Schools Community District Share Impact of Multi-Modal School Transportation Partnership

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) announced in a joint presentation with HopSkipDrive that the district has seen a reduction...

Dad Turns School Bus Driver for Son with Special Needs

Reports repeatedly surface on the school bus driver shortage, late or canceled routes, and the resulting surplus of angry parents who rely on the...

Student Transportation Safety Is No Game

Fall is here, the season of great competition. This month, the World Series pits the best baseball teams from the American and National Leagues...

Growing Trend in Public Education: Four Day School Weeks

Four-day school weeks are gaining popularity nationwide to save money and recruit new teachers. In fact, a PBS News article in September reported that...

WE Transport’s Marksohn Bids Goodbye to School Bus Industry with Retirement

When Bart Marksohn was involved in the day-to-day operations of New York school bus contractor WE Transport, he and his sister Helena attended the...

TSD Panel Offers Necessary Considerations When Selecting Alternative Transportation

FRISCO, Texas — With more school districts turning to private companies to provide non-school bus transportation for students with special needs, the time is...

D.C. Back in Legal Hot Water Over Busing of Students with Disabilities

A class action lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the District of Columbia is once again failing to meet its “basic...

NASDPTS Publishes Paper Espousing Safety of School Buses Over Alternative Transportation

With the increased usage of non-yellow vehicles transporting students, the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS) released a position paper...

Adroit Advance Technologies to Expand Service to the Midwest

HOUSTON, Texas – Today, ADROIT Advanced Technologies, a Beacon Mobility partner-company, announced they will begin serving general and special education customers in the Midwest...

COVID-19 Could Impact Transportation Long After the Virus Leaves Students

It is without question that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on education, how students learn, and how school laws are interpreted...

Changing, Correcting Bell Times Can Have Positive Effect on Routing

There may be no perfect solutions when it comes to routing. As can be painfully clear to all concerned, the narrow timeframes for morning...

Special Education Attorney Navigates Legal Bumps in the Road for Student Transporters

FRISCO, Texas — Several federal laws that define the transportation of students with disabilities and special needs have been updated recently or may be...

What’s In your School Bus Evacuation Plan?

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face,” professional boxer Mike Tyson once said. And while the quote may not seem fitting...

School Districts Use Data, Routing For Medicaid Reimbursements

There’s no getting around the fact that transporting students is an expensive enterprise. Add to that the extra measures needed for serving students with...

Unforeseen Liability: The Impact of Transportation Personnel Shortages

In recent years, I have observed a circumstantial relationship between transportation personnel shortages and the necessity for assigning increased numbers of substitute personnel. Driver...

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