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NYC SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS’ STRIKE ENDS AS CITY CONSIDERS NEW BIDS
Te New York City strike by 8,000 bus drivers and attendants, which
stretched out more than a month, concluded Feb. 15 and regular school bus service resumed Feb. 20. Tis was good news to the parents of 152,000 students who rely on the yellow bus to get to and from school daily, especially those with special needs children. Te city spent about $20.6 million in transit cards, taxis and gas
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mileage to get thousands of stranded students to school during the strike, according to schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, but some still didn’t make it there. Attendance in special-education programs plummeted by one-third when the strike started. On the first day back, all 7,700 public school routes were restored and student attendance citywide reached 88.5 percent, DOE spokeswoman Marge Feinberg told STN. Union chief Michael Cordiello, who announced the strike was
over, said this decision was prompted by a letter of support from five Democrats who are vying for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s seat. In the letter, they asked the drivers to return to work. Local 1181 bus drivers and matrons went on strike Jan. 16 to
protest the elimination of employee protection provisions from future bus company contracts. Tese contracts had not been renego- tiated in 34 years before the city requested bids in December. Feinberg said the Office of Pupil Transportation is currently
reviewing 65 bids and the Panel for Educational Policy is expected to vote on recommendations in May. “Te contracts then would be registered in July and implemented in September when school starts,” noted Feinberg.
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business units and corporate sales division as part of its restructuring since acquiring The C.E. White Company earlier this year … Thomas Built Institute will offer hands-on training May 7-10 in Greensboro, N.C., and a second session scheduled for July 23-26 in conjunction with the STN EXPO in Reno, Nev., held July 20-24 … Stock Transportation, National Express Corporation's Canadian division, in February expanded its portfolio by serving two Catholic school districts in Alberta … Mobile Witness released a tablet and smartphone app for the Student Accountability System that enables drivers to view real-time ridership data and take attendance … The Southlake Carroll Lacrosse Association contracted with Durham Charter Services, an extension of Durham School Services, for transportation to away games for its high school teams this season … EMC Insurance Companies is offering its insured schools complimentary access to SafeSchools Training, a Web-based safety training and compliance management system … Lampton-Love joined with Alliance AutoGas to provide fleets in Louisiana and Tennessee with its program for switching to propane autogas … Executives at Preshus Cargo LLC developed the Patron Attendance and Tracking Solution for school transportation.
32 School Transportation News April 2013
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