or school bus driver have the filters [that] go all the way to what we’d call an adult learner. On an elementary bus, you can set those filters down to that level. Sentinel also has terrific firewalls.” He added that Kajeet has combed through millions of websites and made


various categories for flagging inappropriate sites, whether they are gambling, streaming or porn, for instance. “The school doesn’t need to know that Draft Kings is a gambling site,” he added.


“Just tell the filter that anything labeled gambling is out. Kajeet did all that initial work for their clients.” Kajeet also offers real-time analytics that show exactly what sites each student has tried to access.


Nothing But Success Billy Huish first learned about Kajeet at a National Assockiation for Pupil Trans-


portation Conference in Kansas City years ago. The director of transportation for Farmington Municipal School District in New Mexico oversees about 90 buses that cover an area of over 800 square miles. Sports trips regularly go to Albuquerque, a 180-mile trip one way. “In the transportation industry we’re always saying that the bus is an extension


of the classroom,” he added. “But are we really?” He said he initially installed the Kajeet SmartBus on the district’s nine activity buses, two that travel to the Colorado state line, and the two buses that drive south


17%


of transportation directors/ supervisors said they are planning on applying for


E-rate funding for school bus Wi-Fi internet service and equipment.


(Out of 95 survey responses.)


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