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Danvers introduces new transportation coordinator and outlines plan to reduce special-education transport costs
Summary
The Danvers School Committee met with new Transportation and Operations Coordinator David Pulsipher, who described vendor-compliance checks, a district survey, and plans to hire drivers and standardize procedures to reduce rising special-education transportation costs.
David Pulsipher, the district’s new transportation and operations coordinator, introduced himself to the Danvers School Committee and described a short-term plan to improve reliability and contain the district’s special-education transportation costs.
Pulsipher told the committee he began work October 28 and said he has been “driving a bus” to learn operations firsthand. He said the district’s out-of-district special-education transportation need has grown “quadrupled over the last several years,” and that contracted vendor rates produce steep cost increases compared with in-house vans.…
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