Keeping Students Safe: 3 Key NAPT Policy Issues in 2015
The National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) recently published a snapshot of their 16 hot button issues for 2015. Here's what we recommend to address three of them:
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Special Needs Program Embraces Seon Anti-bullying Campaign
In October of 2014, thousands of students participated in Seon’s annual coloring contest, first launched in 2013 to promote anti-bullying awareness and education. One special needs student program in Georgia participated in the contest in a way that was truly inspiring. We caught up with Gary Mullis, Director of Services at the Cedarwood Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support (GNETS) to hear his story.
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5 Lessons Learned: Using Cameras to Capture School Bus Stop-arm Violations
Over 24 states have now introduced or have pending laws authorizing the use of video cameras on the outside of school buses to identify stop-arm violators. But rolling out a stop-arm camera program can be tricky and time-consuming. So we thought we’d share five lessons we’ve learned from working with school districts over the past five years to test and perfect the technology to help them take advantage of these new laws.
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Benefits of GIS Routing for School Bus Transportation
With the development and increased affordability of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, transportation professionals all over the world discovered and embraced this tool for effective planning, and managing of transportation systems, that can solve complex route problems in minutes and dramatically increase efficiency. Today we asked our GIS expert, project manager Peter Klemm how GIS applications and software can help significantly optimize school bus fleet management and result in tangible savings.
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