Leadership/ communication and commitment O Safety Busing O Rules and Guidance O Reporting

From, IAPT/TTT 2014

Required

Safety Busing O Required: O Policy O Rating instrument O Break off point O Board date, August O Ad hoc committee O Last review ( every three years) Resource: Idaho Code , , SISBO page 58. SDE measurement model.

Rules O TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZED, IDAHO STATUE, O A board of trustees may require pupils who live less than one and one-half (1 1/2) miles from the nearest established bus stop to walk or provide their own transportation to such bus stop. That distance shall be determined by the nearest and best route from the junction of the driveway of the pupil's home and the nearest public road, to the nearest door of the schoolhouse he attends, or to the bus stop, as the case may be. The board may transport any pupil a lesser distance when in its judgment the age or health or safety of the pupil warrants.

Rules O BUS ROUTES -- NON- TRANSPORTATION ZONES. The board of trustees of each school district may establish, and alter, bus routes and establish, and alter, non-transportation zones. Such routes and zones shall be determined for each year not later than the regular August meeting of the board;

Safety Busing O All school districts submitting applications for safety busing reimbursement approval shall have established a board policy for evaluating and rating all safety busing requests and shall have on file a completed measuring or rating instrument for all submitted requests. The State Department of Education staff shall develop and maintain a measuring instrument model, which shall include an element for validating contacts with responsible organizations or persons responsible for improving or minimizing hazardous conditions. Each applying district will be required to annually affirm that conditions of all prior approved safety busing requests are unchanged. The local board of trustees shall annually, by official action ( , Idaho Code), approve all safety busing locations. School districts that receive state reimbursement of costs associated with safety busing will re-evaluate all safety busing sites at intervals of at least every three years using the local board adopted measuring or scoring instrument. In order to qualify for reimbursement the local school board will, by official action, approve the initial safety busing request and allow the students in question to be transported before the application is sent to the state. Consideration for reimbursement will be contingent on the application for safety busing being received by the State Department of Education Transportation Section on or before March 31 of the school year in which the safety busing began. Resource: Sisbo page 58

Rating Instrument Model

From, SDE safety busing model O 12.School district administrators shall develop an objective measuring instrument, which contains a scoring element for assessing hazards encountered by students while walking from home to school routes. Districts may use the sample measuring instrument provided by SDE, a sample of which available through their Web site. School districts shall re-evaluate all safety busing sites within district boundaries at intervals of at least every three years.

From, SDE safety busing model O 13.SDE recommends school district board of trustees annually approve the formation of an ad hoc supplemental transportation committee for the purpose of objectively evaluating all hazardous routes under 1.5 miles from the students’ home to school, using a board approved measuring instrument. O Resource:

From, SDE safety busing model O 15.SDE recommends that the objective measuring instrument and the related scoring element be used in determining an appropriate “cut off” for safety busing purposes when the scoring element used indicates hazards that are “reasonable” for students to encounter during their walk to and from school. The philosophy for this recommendation is based on the assumption that all students must encounter “some hazards” during the course of their travel from home to school. The intent of the objective measuring instrument is to prioritize and/or weight hazards. O Resource:

File Safety busing O Once a SDE ridership has been pulled and filed by district, you may report safety busing thru I bus. (Report due March 31). ( SDE proposed due date to change to March 1./ Reason: spring break conflict.

Reporting

Look for O Safety busing students in active areas: ( this number will change as you update areas). O Safety busing students in Last Ridership upload: Note: SDE Audits and validates the #’s reported in ridership report, ( these #’s should be used to validate safety busing number, as they are already reported in the Ridership report.)

Route Ridership Report

I bus/ safety busing O At the start of a new fiscal year, IBUS will roll all other safety busing areas to “Inactive” status.

Inactive moving to Active O Open a existing area, information will roll over expect: Board date and Actual rider #,

Re-evaluate

What you’ll need O Rating instrument, District form, with Score. O If rating instrument still supports area, nothing has changed or improved since last evaluated, Date with new date, shall be one day less than last date( last done 2/12/2012, current date 2/11/2015). O If changes have occurred that would change Rating, then re-evaluate area, Note: Evaluation shall be done during times when students would be required to travel the area in question. ( not during summer or weekend).

More on rating Instrument O Grade level, supporting area, should reflect, area of attendance, example: K-5, K-6, 7-8, 9-12, K-12. ( do not list only grade level of riders, example: K,3,5 ( this means if a 2 nd or 4 th grader move in to area, they have not been approved to ride).

Re-evaluation page

Remember O Required: O Policy O Rating instrument O Break off point O Board date, August O Ad hoc committee O Last review ( every three years) Resource: Idaho Code , , SISBO page 58. SDE measurement model

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