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As 2020 comes to a close, NAPT would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the NAPT Dispatch, a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.
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.NAPT MEMBER NEWS
Attention School Transportation Product Suppliers: Are you a member of NAPT?
NAPT
Annual memberships for our NAPT Business Partners expire on December 31, 2020. Be on the lookout for an email from us that explains new services and expanded options for our business affiliate members in the 2021 membership year.
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The Safety Vision IR Thermometer is used to measure passengers’ temperature quickly and easily as they board the bus or enter the building. Scanning any part of the face or hand, temperature readings are displayed on the LED screen, in addition to an audible voice that states if the person’s temperature is within range.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
CDC releases more extensive safety guidelines for schools
District Administration Magazine
From May 26: The CDC has released a more extensive set of safety precautions schools should take as they reopen and gradually welcome students, teachers and staff to classrooms this summer or fall. The new guidance, which urges schools to make all decisions in consultation with local public health officials, expands on a graphic the agency released. For instance, the CDC recommends teachers and school staff wear face coverings. But the agency recognizes, however, that face coverings may be challenging for students, particularly younger students, to wear all day.
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Pennsylvania is in danger of losing its school bus industry
The Sentinel Newspaper
From Sept. 22: Most of us remember the popular children's song, "The Wheels on the Bus." When we were kids, we sang it with our friends as we rode a yellow bus to school; as parents, we taught it to our own children. But in every school district across the state, the future of the yellow bus is at risk. Pennsylvania is in danger of losing its school bus drivers and the businesses that employ them. We must make certain that school buses and drivers are available to transport students when they return to the classroom. To ensure this happens, pupil transportation must be funded and supported as an essential service to Pennsylvania’s students and their families. This is true not only for charter and non-public pupil transportation but for all public schools as well.
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The socially distanced school day
Education Week
From June 16: Classrooms. Hallways. Buses. Schedules. Extracurriculars. Every facet of the school day will have to be fundamentally altered when students eventually return to school. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, school leaders must ensure social distancing — limiting group sizes, keeping students six feet apart, restricting non-essential visitors and closing communal spaces. Those measures run counter to how schools usually operate, with teachers and students working together in close quarters, children socializing throughout the day and the buildings serving as a community gathering space.
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3 simple things school bus drivers can do to improve student safety
Campus Technology
From Jan. 21: Although it is estimated that 10% of all student bullying occurs on school buses, a survey found 55% of drivers are very minimally included, if at all, in developing bullying policies. The same survey found while 80% of drivers have received bullying training, nearly half of the drivers want more training to be made available to them.
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Does your district have students without Internet at home? Equip your buses with WiFi and park them in neighborhoods, apartment complexes, mobile home parks, and school parking lots to create Internet access point amid distance learning. Get started by downloading the Community WiFi Hotspot Guide.
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Wash a School Bus in less than 5 minutes! Using only 5 gallons of water and 1 ounce of soap per minute, walk around the bus applying soap and the second time using fresh water, all automated. We are the world’s most economical, ecological and efficient bus wash system!
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NTSB calling on all states to require seat belts on school buses
KGW-TV
From Feb. 18: Video captured the horrifying moment a school bus in Ohio packed with students flipped onto its side, but incredibly no one was seriously hurt. Officials say the bus overturned after another vehicle ran a red light and hit it. The National Transportation Safety Board is now calling on all states to require three-point seat belts on new school buses.
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Will schools mandate COVID-19 vaccine or face liability?
Education DIVE
From July 21: As coronavirus vaccine candidates enter trials, with some of the earliest predictions landing availability sometime early next year, leaders are raising alarms around the possibility of parents and children who may seek exemptions from the requirement.
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Caught on camera: SUV swerves between two school buses, despite warning lights
WOAI-TV
From Jan. 28: A dash-cam caught a close call involving two school buses and an SUV. The video begins with the moment an SUV illegally passes one bus before nearly hitting the other, which was turning in front of it near Loop 1604 and Potranco. Recently, many residents shared their concerns about the safety of children riding to and from the school. We spent the day speaking with Northside ISD, law enforcement and parents.
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The big, yellow bus fight among Ohio parents, lawmakers and schools
The Columbus Dispatch
From Aug. 18: If a district isn't busing its own students because of online classes, does it have to bus others, like private and charter school students? Parents across Ohio are coming to terms with what back-to-school looks like in their districts, but families with kids in private and charter schools still have one big unanswered question: busing.
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Bus stops: 9 school busing realities to recognize
District Administration Magazine
From Sept. 15: What individually does the work of 36 cars and collectively transports nearly 26 million kids a day? It's the school bus, and like everything else related to education in the past six months, it has experienced major bumps in the road. "You take the nation's largest system of mass transit and shut it down overnight — that's going to have a ripple effect," says Mike Martin, executive director of the National Association for Pupil Transportation. Martin was a co-administrator on a project that pulled the school bus transportation industry together in an effort to help school district leaders plan for fall reopenings.
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School districts get creative to keep bus drivers, support staff employed
Education DIVE
From March 31: When Utah Gov. Gary Herbert put all K-12 public schools under a soft close earlier this month to help mitigate the spread of novel coronavirus, the Duchesne County School District saw two potential problems: How would students have access to free breakfast and lunch? And what would happen to school support staff who depend on the income?
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