TRANSPORTATION FEE

Any student who lives less than 2.5 miles from the school attended by the most direct commonly traveled route will be required to pay a fee.  The fee is $200/student or $400/family per year to be transported by school bus.  The semester rate is $100/student and $200/family.  The initial fee may be paid at the time of enrollment or prior to July 1. If you elect to pay prior to July, the fee will be reduced 25%.

Any family who completes the application for the National School Lunch Program and qualifies for free or reduced lunches will have the transportation fees waived. Any student who has a special education IEP requiring transportation will have the fees waived.

All routes will be developed so that no student will have to walk more than one-half mile from his/her driveway to ride the bus.

Any student living less than a mile from a school may ride a school bus if he or she obtains permission from the superintendent. The granting of such permission will be dependent upon the availability of seats on the bus and upon the buses not being rerouted.

All distances listed herein are understood to mean from the point at which the driveway of the student's home intersects a given road or highway to the walkway leading to the front entrance of the appropriate school.

Bus service on certain roads may have to be curtailed from time to time because of snow, mud or poorly graveled surfaces. Patrons desiring to have the least possible interruption of bus service may find it desirous to impress upon their county officials the necessity of having adequately surfaced and maintained roads for buses to travel.

When bus service on a route must be curtailed, it shall be the duty of the driver on said route to notify those patrons concerned about the curtailment.


STUDENT CONDUCT ON SCHOOL BUSES

Kansas State Regulations Article 36-13-2 states, "Pupils transported in a school bus shall be under the authority of and responsible directly to the operator of the bus, unless otherwise assigned by proper authorities. Continued disorderly conduct or persistent refusal to submit to the authority of the operator shall be sufficient reason for refusing transportation to any pupil. The operator of any school bus shall be responsible for the order and conduct of the pupils transported." Drivers are required to report misbehavior by students on the bus.

PHONE NUMBER FOR Cheryl Blackburn, BUS COORDINATOR: 724-KIDS (5437)