District transportation equipment shall be used only for the transportation of students to and from school and school-sponsored activities. Upon authorization of the Superintendent, adults may be permitted to ride school buses to school-sponsored activities.
Student transportation shall be considered a privilege to be enjoyed by a student only as long as he/she accepts responsibility for his/her own conduct, carefully follows all rules and regulations, and positively responds to the directions and requests of the bus driver.
Bus Routes
Careful consideration shall be given to such conditions as safety and hazards, number and ages of students, kind and condition of roads, safe and convenient bus stops, economy of operation, and estimated time necessary to cover the routes. Routes are to be planned to keep individual riding distance and time to a practical minimum.
Distance Eligibility
Students who live more than 1-½ miles from the school that they attend may be eligible to be transported to school. Under normal conditions, elementary students shall be expected to walk up to 1 mile and secondary students up to 1-½ miles to a bus stop. The Superintendent is authorized to make exceptions to these distances if safety conditions warrant.
Handicapped Students
A person identified by an educational planning and placement (EPPC) committee to be a “handicapped person” in accordance with R340.1702, who would otherwise be unable to participate in an appropriate special education program or service operated or contracted by the Intermediate School District, shall be eligible for only that additional transportation determined by the committee to be necessary for the person to participate.
Non-Public School Students
A student enrolled in a non-public school shall be eligible for transportation to the public school that the student would otherwise attend. This transportation shall be along the regular routes according to the same eligibility provisions and schedules in effect for public school students, except that the non-public school student shall then be eligible for transportation from the public school to the closest non-public school located in the District that the student is eligible to attend or to a point within the District from which he/she may have available transportation to the non-public school in accordance with state law.
