Shelby County schools will use StopFinder for 2526 bus routes; parents must complete online registration
Summary
Emmanuel Stone, Shelby County Public Schools director of transportation, said parents must finish the district's online registration (OLR) so students can be assigned bus routes for the 2526 school year and receive route details via the StopFinder app rather than newspaper postings.
Emmanuel Stone, director of transportation for Shelby County Public Schools, said parents and guardians must complete the district’s online registration, or OLR, to have their child assigned a bus route for the 2526 school year and to receive route details through the StopFinder app.
Stone said district staff will send email invitations for StopFinder in July or August with instructions to download and sign in. “You will only receive a StopFinder invitation in your email if you have completed your OLR,” he said.
The district will use StopFinder as the primary and sole channel for publishing pickup and drop-off times and real-time bus locations. “That will be the only way that the district and my department are going to push out that information is through the StopFinder app,” Stone said. He added that StopFinder lets parents “see where the bus is located” and monitor daily pickup and drop-off times.
Stone urged families to list a primary email address in the OLR that they check daily. He also said the district will send information via social media, text alerts and email to help parents complete the OLR. Stone noted that the district will not post bus routes in the Seminole News this year.
For questions about registration or routing, Stone encouraged parents to contact their child’s school. “If you have any questions or anything, I would encourage you to call your child's school,” he said.
The announcement was presented as an informational briefing by the transportation department; no formal vote or policy action was described in the remarks.
