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Download full textWisconsin Policy Forum, 2024
Wisconsin has seen a 17.7% drop in licensed school bus drivers over the past 15 years, creating challenges for school districts and the families they serve. This problem may get worse before it gets better, as more than onefifth of licensed school bus drivers are 65 and over. Transit systems across the state are facing a similar problem, with the…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Age, Public Schools
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Direct linkDanielle Sanderson Edwards – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
School transportation may increase student outcomes by providing a reliable and safe means of getting to and from school. Little evidence of the effects of such policies exists. In this paper, I provide some of the first causal evidence of transportation impacts on student attendance and achievement using a rich panel of student-level enrollment…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Attendance, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
Edwards, Danielle Sanderson – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2022
This study analyzes how bus eligibility impacts student attendance and achievement in Michigan where almost half of the largest districts limit bus transportation to students who live more than 1.5 miles from school. The study finds that while eligibility has no major effect on student attendance or achievement overall, economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Bus Transportation, Academic Achievement, Attendance
Julia Burdick-Will; Marc L. Stein – Educational Researcher, 2024
In this study, we use estimated public transit routes for high school students in Baltimore City to predict the number of days they are late during the school year. We find that after adjusting for individual and school characteristics, school preferences, and neighborhood fixed effects, total travel time and transit use are not predictive of…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, High School Students, Attendance, Transportation
Alabama State Department of Education, 2023
This Quick Facts document provides a snapshot of facts about Alabama school systems and public schools; Alabama students; Alabama educators; National School Lunch Program lunches served; Alabama school buses; Alabama gifted students; total personnel; average daily attendance; graduation rate; average ACT score; AMSTI schools; ACCESS virtual…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Lunch Programs, Bus Transportation
Trajkovski, Samantha; Zabel, Jeffrey; Schwartz, Amy Ellen – Grantee Submission, 2021
While school choice has been well studied, there is little existing research exploring the role of transportation, in general, and school buses, in particular, to school choice decisions. We examine the effect of school buses on school choice decisions using data on kindergarten students and their eligibility for transportation assistance in New…
Descriptors: School Choice, Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Proximity
