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District adds bus monitors, tightens incident response after parent complaints
Summary
Woodland Hills School District leaders told the board they added bus monitors and changed incident notification practices after parents and drivers raised concerns about safety and behavior on buses. Presenters said early results show fewer incidents on monitored runs.
Woodland Hills School District staff told the board Jan. 15 that the district has added bus monitors and tightened its response and family-notification procedures after complaints about student behavior on buses.
Dr. Eddie Wilson, who introduced the update, said the district runs 310 bus routes and described the complexity of coordinating transportation to many receiving schools. "These folks right here are in charge of busing students to 107 different schools every single day," he said, and thanked transportation staff for the logistical work.
Transportation supervisors described a series of operational and behavior-management changes implemented in December and restarted after the Christmas break. Presenters said the district hired four bus monitors, assigned one security officer to ride a bus, and used two vehicle monitors who were already in place. Staff also said the district had RTI interventionists deliver lesson plans in each building to teach students expected bus behavior and distributed family notices explaining how…
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