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District outlines new checks after early-year bus assignment errors
Summary
After two students were placed on the wrong bus at the start of the school year, district leaders described layered safeguards — second verification of assignments, audited on-bus attendance/head counts, parent pickup verification by student ID, bus decals tied to backpack clips and possible third-party tracking software — to reduce human error.
The superintendent told the board the district conducted an immediate audit after two students were placed on the wrong bus on day one of the school year and described multiple changes to reduce future errors.
The superintendent said the district has instituted additional verification steps for transportation assignments, strengthened in-building dismissal communications, required on-bus attendance and head counts, and added a verification step for parent pickups requiring a student ID number. "These these changes have really strengthened our accountability and improved our dismissal procedures and, you know, the additional safeguards," the superintendent said. The district also plans to order animal decals for buses and matching backpack clips to provide an extra visual check, and staff have reached out to the vendor Traverza to evaluate software packages that would track students on a bus manifest (not GPS).
Administrators noted that some software options can be costly and that any procurement would come back to the board for review; they described a plan to revisit and rehearse the procedures before next year’s opening day.
