SPECIAL NEEDS NUMBERS


THE GAME


9.0% 4.5% 9.8%


43.6% 33.1% More than 150 readers answered about a


Less than 25 percent 26 to 50 percent 51 to 75 percent 76 to 100 percent Other (please specify)


dozen questions posed by School Trans- portation News in December on special needs


transportation operations, whose


size and scope ranged from a couple of students transported daily to thousands. Of those respondents, 130 noted just how much of the overall budget is allocated to special needs. More than 40 percent said special needs accounts


transportation for less than


25 percent of the department’s annual budget. But at least that many also said special needs costs make up a larger slice of the budgetary pie. Leading the way at 33 percent were those who reported that the special needs budget accounts for 26


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to 50 percent of the budget, followed by 9 percent with special needs budgets of 51 to 75 percent. Nearly five percent said the special needs tab uses 76 to 100 percent of the budget. “Te state has yet to realize that a special


needs bus costs more than a regular edu- cation bus,” said one respondent. It should be noted that several survey


respondents indicated their operations only serviced this particular student seg- ment. Another 10 percent gave varying “other” responses that ranged from be- ing unable to answer to being unable to separate special needs costs from the overall budget. Te effect of the economy on state and


Transporters respond to survey on how budgets, homeless students and other issues are affecting operations


How much of your operating budget is set aside for special needs transportation?


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