News SPECIAL REPORT So Many Buses, So Little Time


Anxiety is high for student transporters, vendors as they face a deadline to equip all school buses with child reminder technology, but a reprieve may come this month


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alifornia school districts scrambling to comply with a new state law requiring electronic child safety alert systems on all buses by the start of school this fall fear they may run out of time and money.


Te sheer volume of school buses statewide that must be equipped with the new systems has transportation directors fret- ting that their districts might be languishing on a wait list when the deadline comes, and passes. Te California Highway Patrol released the new regulations on


Dec. 28. Tey became effective in Title 13, the state’s school bus code, on Jan. 1. Student transporters say the short turnaround put school districts in a bind to find and obtain compliant systems and


set their installation plans in motion. “Tere is no way you can physically get 30,000 buses done


before the beginning of the school year in August,” said Kelly Stainbrook, transportation director in the Paso Robles-Joint Unified School District. “Tey can’t make the product fast enough. Our vendor has a waiting list already.” Stainbrook said she has viewed one child detection system but plans to do her “homework” before making a recommendation to her district. Tessie Reeder, transportation supervisor for Calaveras USD, said her district has purchased a child check system but has yet to sched- ule installation because the final requirements were released so late. “CHP didn’t come out with mandates until almost the first


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