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Sumter transportation director pledges routing audit, parent app and staffing changes to curb late buses
Summary
Transportation director Marlon Dantzler reported a multi-pronged plan — new parent MyRide K12 app, routing analysis by a consultant, training upgrades, two-way radios, activity-bus purchases and personnel shifts — to address chronic late buses and driver shortages.
Sumter School District’s transportation director, Marlon Dantzler, told the board on Feb. 25 he has launched an effort to improve reliability after repeated late buses and staffing shortages, including a routing audit by an outside consultant and a roll‑out plan for the MyRide K12 parent app.
Dantzler said his department is pursuing three immediate priorities: accountability, consistency and efficiency. He described a package of operational changes implemented since his arrival: raising bus monitor pay to $11 per hour, repairing and planning upgrades for bus cameras, ensuring two‑way radios are installed on buses, moving payroll tracking for drivers to the district’s Frontline system, and launching a new Facebook page and the MyRide K12 parent app in pilot schools.
“Communication was a big thing,” Dantzler said. He said the MyRide K12 app will rely on accurate PowerSchool addresses and that the district plans to…
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