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Area School District, adding that the cur- rent trend in the eastern Pennsylvania community has students moving farther away from their home school because they are homeless. As Osceola (Fla.) School District
Director of Transportation Karen Strick- land put it, districts are continuing “to make the miracles” to help their students. Some transportation depart- ments are working with neighboring schools to make accommodations for the students to be transported to bus stops along their routes. Others have ab- sorbed the students on to their special needs routes. Although not connected, the number
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of districts increasing walking distances and those increasing their walking and biking problems were almost identical, with 14.1 percent and 14.8 percent re- spectively. Of the 38 that have stepped up their programs, 28 have applied for or have been granted funding from the federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) pro- gram, which can include hiring a walking and biking coordinator for the transporta- tion department. Some were even granted
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funding to perform a safe routes study. One northern Colorado district even has a transportation employee specifi- cally assigned to the district’s Safe Routes program, one that has garnered national recognition for its accomplishments. But not everyone is sold on the idea. “Safe walks grants are utterly worthless.
A grant that cannot be used for infra- structure is not worth applying for,” said a transportation supervisor from a large district in Minnesota. As the STN survey shows, pupil trans-
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portation issues connected to the fluxes in the economy and district budgets are being felt everywhere, no matter the size of the student population, the budget or the staff. ■
34 School Transportation News Magazine April 2010
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