SPECIAL REPORT
of transportation directors/ supervisors track the transportation of students to Medicaid-eligible services during the school day. (Out of 172 responses to a recent STN magazine survey.)
41%
Minneapolis Public Schools invested 55 percent of its American Rescue Plan funding to transport students who are experiencing homelessness. Vans like this one help provide those services.
Vans and cars transport 447
of the district’s 1,100 homeless students as well as students with special needs.
The Rocky Mountain Solution Greg Jackson, executive
director of transportation and fleet services for Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, said that his district has its own fleet of SUVs and also uses three third-party carriers to limit his district’s shortage to 38 driv- ers. He said without the help from vendor partners—such as EverDriven, HopSkipDrive and Noah Cares—the district would feel the full impact of 58 driver vacancies. Jackson said EverDriven
and Noah Cares, as alternative transportation companies, must adhere to the guidelines of the Colorado Department of Educa- tion for transporting students, which match federal guidelines. He added that HopSkipDrive
cannot transport students with disabilities because the local public utilities commission reg- ulates Transportation Network Companies, or TNCs. “We have our own fleet of
SUVs that we use because we always want our students to be transported by JeffCo employ- ees, especially some of these students who are medically fragile,” Jackson explained. “We want to make sure they are tak- en care of.” Jeffco receives no federal funds to transport the impact- ed 120 to 130 students, but the district does receive partial re- imbursement from the state for transporting students in foster care. “Everything else falls with- in our existing budget,” Jackson shared. He added that the district uses
fuel cards, bus passes and mile- age reimbursements for parents who transport their children if the district cannot accommo- date them.
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of transportation directors/ supervisors said there has been an increase in the number of students eligible for transportation services under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act. (Out of 172 responses.)
42%
of transportation directors/ supervisors said their state allows for the use of non- CDL vehicles to transport students to and from school. (Out of 172 responses.)
73%
are utilizing non-CDL vehicles in their operations. (Out of 126 readers who said their state allows for the use of those vehicles.)
80%
PHOTO COURTESY OF MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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