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Why Do School Districts So Often Believe that Healthier School Start Times Will Cost Money?
Why do school districts so often raise the specter of increased transportation costs as the reason to avoid moving to healthier school start times (SSTs)? That’s a question I ponder, sometimes late at night, sometimes while running, and sometimes...
Are Your District Stars Aligned to Get to Healthier School Start Times?
If you work in a school district where middle or high schools start before 8:30a, you probably already know that’s neither a recommended best practice nor a healthy practice for teens. Are you ready to do something good and get to better school start times (SSTs) for your students? Remember, even if you are the superintendent, you won’t get your district to change by yourself. You need to be able to count. You need a...
Will Healthier School Start Times Make Your Bus Driver Shortage Worse?
Not if your drivers like sunsets... In the discussions about getting to healthier school start times (SSTs), the driver shortage frequently comes up as the final excuse as to why we just can’t get there. The offered logic is that healthier SSTs will somehow...
Pupil Transportation Contract Requirements & Templates
School Bus Loading Zone Trends
The Kansas State Department of Education (ksde.org) with help from the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS.org) has performed an annual, national service for over five decades by collecting, analyzing and sharing reports...
School Bus Maintenance for Administrators and Fleet Manager
Automating School Bus Maintenance
A third under appreciated and under utilized component of a broad based school bus maintenance and cost reduction plan is automating more operations. Old school head bus mechanics who lack computer savvy may be slow to adopt new computer-driven programs, despite...
The Bus as a Learning Tool
Recent estimates peg the number of students who ride the school bus in the US at 25 million, just over 50% of the total 49.9 million American school children aged 5‒17. An estimated 10.7% walk or bike to school and the remaining 39.3% of students travel to school by...