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INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS 16 Tis month: state budget crises; NTSB urges ban on all mobile communications by motorists; more guidance on how transportation affects bullying, charter schools and FERPA; debate on school bus flammability standards; school bus safety tools; “Biz Bites;” and more


Columns


FIRST TAKE BY RYAN GRAY 14 A New Year’s Challenge and Opportunity


COMMENTARY BY BILL PAUL 58 Can We Get to Zero?


Departments STNONLINE 8 What’s new on the STN website


MAILBAG 10 Views and opinions from our readers


12 20 Years of STN: Reader Recollections


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 TOP STORY 22 Defining Student Fatalities at the School Bus Stop


HEADLINES 12 STN EXPO to Offer ‘Te Great Opportunity,’ Names McDonald Co-Chair


24 Student Transportation Departments Urged to Prepare for Two-Way Radio Narrowbanding


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Supplier Council Member 6 School Transportation News Magazine January 2012


 SPECIAL REPORT 28 Make Way for New and Revised Wheelchair Standards 18, 19 and 20


26 Passenger Van Safety Strictly Enforced for Massachusetts Day Cares


FOR THE RECORD 49 Children left on board buses


UPCOMING EVENTS 52 Monthly industry calendar


PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS 53 Te latest offerings for the student transportation set


PEOPLE 54 Movers and shakers in the industry


MARKETPLACE 50 Classified advertising


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