2020 5720
Non-Instructional/Business Operations
SUBJECT: TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS
Requests for Transportation to and from Nonpublic Schools
The parent or person in parental relation of a parochial or private school child residing in the District who desires his or her child to be transported to a parochial, private, or charter school within or outside the District during the next school year, must submit a written request to the Board no later than April 1 of the preceding year, or within 30 days of moving into the District. The District will publish the April 1 date in its school calendar and/or local newspaper as a reminder to parents of this deadline. Late requests will not be denied where a reasonable explanation is provided for the delay.
Transportation to Nonpublic Schools on Holidays
The District will share its calendar and start and dismissal times with nonpublic schools before the start of the school year. The District is not required to provide transportation to nonpublic schools on days on which the District’s schools are not in session.
Transportation for Nonpublic School Students with Disabilities who are Parentally Placed
For students with disabilities, ages 5 through 21, who are parentally placed in nonpublic schools outside their district of residency, if special education services are to be provided to a student at a site other than the nonpublic school, the school district of location is responsible for providing the special education services, including, as applicable, arranging and providing transportation necessary for the student to receive special education services.
The district of residence remains responsible to provide transportation to parentally placed nonpublic school students from the student’s home to the nonpublic school.
Transportation of Students with Disabilities
Transportation of students with disabilities in the District may not exceed 50 miles one way from the student’s home to the appropriate special service or program, unless the Commissioner certifies that no appropriate nonresidential special service or program is available within 50 miles. In that event the Commissioner may then establish transportation arrangements.
Student Information
Upon written consent of the parent or person in parental relation, every school bus which is used to regularly transport students with disabilities will maintain the following information about each student with a disability being transported:
- Student’s name;
- Nature of the student’s disability;
- Name of the student’s parent, guardian, or person in parental relation and one or more telephone numbers where that person can be reached in an emergency; and/or
- Name and telephone number of any other person designated by such parent, guardian, or person in parental relation who can be contacted in an emergency.
This information will be used solely for the purpose of contacting the student’s parent, guardian, person in parental relation, or designee in the event of an emergency involving the student, will be kept in a manner which retains the privacy of the student, and will not be accessible to any person other than the driver or a teacher acting in a supervisory capacity. In the event that the driver or teacher is incapacitated, this information may be accessed by any emergency service provider.
This information will be updated as needed, but at least once each school year and will be destroyed if parental consent is revoked, the student no longer attends the school, or the disability no longer exists.
Transportation of Non-Resident Students
Non-resident families must provide their own transportation.
Transportation to School-Sponsored Events
Where the District has provided transportation to students enrolled in the District to a school-sponsored field trip, extracurricular activity, or any other similar event, it will also provide transportation back to either the point of departure or to the appropriate school in the District unless a student’s parent or legal guardian has provided the District with written notice, consistent with District policy, authorizing an alternative form of return transportation for the student. In cases where intervening circumstances make transportation of a student back to the point of departure or to the appropriate school in the District impractical, and the parent has not authorized alternative return transportation, a representative of the District will remain with the student until the student’s parent or legal guardian has been contacted and informed of the intervening circumstances and the student has been delivered to his or her parent.
Transportation in Personal Vehicles
Personal cars of teachers and staff will not be used to transport students except in the event of extenuating circumstances and authorized by the administration.
- Education Law §§ 1604, 1709, 1804, 1807, 1903, 1950, 2503, 2554, 2590-e, 3242, 3602-c, 3621(15),
- 3623-a(2c), 3635, 4401-a, 4401(4), 4402, 4404, 4405, and 4410-6
- Vehicle and Traffic Law § 375(20)(1) and 375(21-i)
NOTE: Refer also to Policy
- #7131 — Education of Students in Temporary Housing
Adopted: 8/24/11
Revised: 9/22/20