Special transportation shall be provided for eligible students in accordance with state guidelines. The ARD Committee must discuss and determine transportation as a related service and document need.  This would include transportation required for access to any Career and Technology Program, Vocational Adjustment Program, Disciplinary Alternative Placement, or Community Job Exploration Training.  If the ARD committee determines transportation is necessary for educational benefit, campus personnel will complete the transportation information form and send it to the Director of Transportation.

Daily Operating Guidelines:

• "Door to door" service means that the bus personnel are responsible for students from the door of the home to the door of the school building (if there are safety hazards that don't allow bus personnel to go to the door of the home, such as a dog, etc. -- then the bus personnel will assume responsibility for the student outside the gate or fence).

• The transportation department will work with parents as much as possible in finding a mutually agreeable pickup and delivery time, but parents cannot mandate a set time for pickup or delivery.   The district is required to keep the amount of time that a student with special education needs is on a bus to be commensurate with the length of time that general education students are on a bus.

• Students are expected to adhere to the Bus Riders' Rules and Regulations found in the Student Handbook.

• Parents are informed on a yearly basis of the guidelines set out by the transportation department.

• Transportation personnel make bus removal recommendations to the building principal and the building principal and/or an appropriate ARD committee make the final decisions concerning bus removals.

Durham School Services

Ken Morris

371-5697

Procedures for Private Transportation Contract:

• The campus, transportation department, and parent must all agree that a private contract is the best method of providing transportation to and/or from school

• The campus Diagnostician sends to the secretary of the special education department the TRANSPORTATION CONTRACT form for private contract transportation (click below for a copy of the form).

TransportContract.pdf

• The secretary of the special education department sends a copy of the TRANSPORTATION CONTRACT to the transportation department so that the transportation department can "run the route" and calculate the mileage.

• The transportation department reports the mileage to the secretary of the special education department.

• At the end of each 6 weeks period the secretary of the special education department will pull up the child's attendance and will initiate a check request to the parent according to the days present X miles X rate per mile.