TABLE OF CONTENTS April 2012 COVER STORY: Enrique Boull’t, left, and Donald Wilkes live
and breathe the school bus, so they are doing everything in their collective power to ensure school busing in Los Angeles doesn’t die amid an enormous budget deficit — and dwindling state resolve to keep transportation funds flow- ing. Te chief operating officer and interim transportation director sat down with School Transportation News Editor Ryan Gray to dis- cuss the challenges and their resolve to keep service alive for students of the nation’s second largest district.
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Los Angeles Unified for Budget Cut Battle
Administrators Enrique Boull’t and Donald Wilkes fight for school bus transportation
Administrators Play Joint Roles In Protecting Transportation
Reducing Operating Costs with GPS
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Features:
Shining Light p. 32 Nation’s 2nd largest school district illuminates the need to keep school buses rolling in
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Working Hand in Hand p. 38 Arkansas relationship helps NASDPTS, American Association of School Administrators
forge new bonds
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Happy Returns? School Districts, School Bus
GPS & ROI p. 40 Te sticker shock that once paralyzed school districts with fiscal terror is losing some of its impact
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