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SHOW the R EPORTER YOUR SOURCE FOR NAPT AND NASDPTS CONFERENCE NEWS! PUBLISHED BY:


INSIDE NEWS: 2011 NAPT Award Winners ........4


NAPT/NASDPTS Conference Photo Gallery ...........................10-11


NAPT Candidates Share Future Goals, Past Experience ..........14-15


Nearly 130 exhibitors will be on hand at Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Center for the two-day NAPT Summit Trade Show, which begins today.


Survival of the Fittest: Future of Industry Lies in its Own Hands By Ryan Gray


CINCINNATI – Even as he described a frightening state of current affairs for student transporta-


tion when it comes to shrinking budgets and mounting operational challenges, Pete Japikse, a past NASDPTS president and the state director at the Ohio Department of Education, continues to wear his proverbial school bus cheerleader uniform no matter how dire things have become. And it’s imperative the rest of the industry do the same, he said on Friday during the formal open-


ing of proceedings at the association’s annual conference. Te industry veteran provided fellow state directors and NASDPTS Supplier Council members


with a brief history of student transportation in Ohio, and how budgetary pressures have affected the state, much like what has occurred across the country. For example, in 1941, Ohio operated 6,800 school buses, and it cost $24.13 to transport one student each school year. Fast forward to 2010, the most recent data available, and the fleet had nearly doubled to 13,342 buses that transported 918,257 students at a cost of $781.43 per student. Ohio has seen an explosion of student transportation costs on the back of transportation to


school of choice, introduced in the state in 1998, and a legislative requirement 15 years earlier that public schools also transport private-school students. Meanwhile, the number of “latch-key kids” has skyrocketed and schools have been forced to collaborate more closely with local police on the loca-


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NAPT Summit Scholarship Winners Welcome Learning, Networking Opportunities .......16


Examining Bullying From a Victim’s Point of View ..........18-19


Vendor Offerings Poised to Help School Transporters’ Budget Concerns ..........................20


Leading Every Day in Cincinnati! .......................................22


A Look Into School Bus Transportation at Cincinnati Public Schools ................................22


OCT. 25, 2011


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