ADOPTING IMPROVEMENTS In an attempt to adjust to the ever-
changing school bus landscape that has been thrown for a loop since the eco- nomic downturn, Robinson and her operations writing committee members drafted a section on No Child Left Behind, including a portion on the transporta- tion of homeless students. In an attempt to align the wording with the federally mandated regulations, a representative from the state of Washington moved to reword a section that stated that school districts “may be required” to provide transportation to homeless students so that instead it read “will be required.” Te motion failed, which in the days after the conference caused a stir among industry representatives and homeless advocates. “Tat to me is actually putting a lot of
states at risk because it’s suggesting that something is permissible that is in fact re- quired. It’s not doing [states] any favors,” said Barbara Duffield, executive director of the National Association for the Educa- tion of Homeless Children and Youth. But according to Robinson, the verbiage
related to instances when the student does not require transportation, for ex- ample, if the student is living in a shelter within appropriate walking distance to the school. Te debate is sure to continue. At this writing, the homeless section
as well as the remainder of the approved national
before
was headed to the NCST editing and in- terpretations
publishing by the end of this year. Revi- sions can also be offered up electronically. Federally-influenced mandates also
found their way into the manual in the form of entire sections, as was illustrated by the inclusion of the “School Transportation Best Practices” portion, which was later moved (and approved) to be renamed as “School Transportation Best Practices for Emergency Management Planning.” School Transportation Security and Emergency Preparedness Committee Chair Deborah Lincoln from Oregon explained that the wording had come straight from the Trans- portation Security Administration, which, in turn, has said that the recommendations came from information gleaned from cor- porate security reviews.
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“We included the things we saw from
the school bus companies that we thought made sense,” said William Arrington, gen- eral manager for TSA’s Highway and Motor Carrier division. “We put together a group of not only the associations, but private carriers and government carriers to get their input. It was not created in a vacuum.”
In the absence of actual
rulemaking
related to the recommendation, which Arrington had originally hoped for, his of- fice decided the next best thing would be security guidance. “We thought the timing was critical be-
cause the congress only meets every five years,” added Arrington. n
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