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Hall, Calvin W. – 1980
Divided into four major sections, this collection of articles addresses the sharing of services in California by school districts or by districts and other agencies. The section on advertising and recruitment makes a case for districts to share in the purchase of employment ads or in the hiring of a recruiter. A reprint of an article about a…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Oriented Programs, Contracts, Cooperative Programs
Download full textFOSTER, G.W., JR. – 1965
THIS ARTICLE LISTS GUIDELINES PREPARED BY A CONSULTANT TO THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION TO AID SCHOOL AUTHORITIES IN THE SOUTH TO COMPLY WITH TITLE VI OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. THE TITLE REQUIRES COMPLIANCE IN DESEGREGATING THE SCHOOLS AS A PRECONDITION FOR FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. SCHOOL DISTRICTS MUST CHOOSE EITHER TO (1) SUBMIT THE…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights Legislation, Consultants, Desegregation Methods
Havighurst, Robert J. – 1968
The factor of metropolitanism affects both the issues of desegregation and decentralization of public school systems. Metropolitanism will encourage social integration in two ways: (1) busing of inner city Negro students to suburban schools, and (2) development of open housing sentiments in the suburbs. The growth rate of non-whites in the suburbs…
Descriptors: Black Students, Blacks, Bus Transportation, Decentralization
Sadler, Ronald A.; Ching, C. T. K. – 1975
In order to investigate the interaction of cost, quality, and efficiency in the provision of educational services in rural Nevada, synthetic cost functions were developed using a linear programming transportation model to identify optimal school district organization. Optimal school district organization was defined for specific levels of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum, Distance
Direct linkBorja, Rhea R. – Education Week, 2005
Five days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, a convoy of 142 air-conditioned school buses from the 209,000-student Texas district rumbled to life. Loaded with food and bottled water, staffed by 350 school employees, and accompanied by bus-repair trucks and a phalanx of school police cars, the yellow buses traveled all night to reach the…
Descriptors: Employees, Bus Transportation, Natural Disasters, Weather
Carriedo, Ruben; And Others – 1986
The San Diego Unified School District (California) began operating a computerized routing and scheduling system for its pupil transportation services at the beginning of the 1985-86 academic school year. The computerized system, provided by Ecotran Systems, Inc. (ECO) of Cleveland, Ohio experienced an inordinate number of difficulties. A…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Flow Charts
Simpson, Robert J. – 1974
Anyone concerned with education or law must realize the significance of the search for ways to give equal educational opportunity to all of the nation's learners. While the desegregation movement has existed for two centuries, it is so complex that it is still on the frontier of the law. The cutting edge now touches the issues of multidistrict…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation, Metropolitan Areas
Bose, Lewis C. – 1974
Desegregation in education is now a matter of national policy initiated by the Federal courts and spurred on by Congress in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Emergency School Aid Act of 1972. No one, however, has attempted to delineate a comprehensive set of guiding rules, or a reasonable modus operandi in resolving disputes. Within a single…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation, Guidelines
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2006
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Public Education, Newsletters, Awards
Association of School Business Officials International, Reston, VA. – 1987
The primary purpose of this book is to present the critical issues in pupil transportation that will confront pupil transportation supervisors in local school districts. The following issues are discussed: (1) demands for extended service from community pressure groups; (2) reductions in budget requests by governing bodies; (3) unrest among driver…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Administrators, Budgets, Bus Transportation
Leyland, George – 1974
A cooperative effort between the National Institute of Education and the Clark County (Nevada) School District demonstrated the practical use of available computer-assisted techniques for helping local communities allocate students to schools and for solving other problems that occur during districting efforts. By using available computer…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness
Spence, Beth – 2000
More children are riding school buses longer distances than ever before, but this review of research on busing finds a surprising shortage of information on the subject, apart from safety figures and costs and efficiencies of the buses themselves. Historically, increased student transportation has been the by-product of school consolidation, but…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Consolidated Schools, Costs
Herron, William P. – 1975
The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1971
In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Edward B. Fort, superintendent, Inkster Public Schools; Dr. Norman Drachler, former school superintendent, Detroit; Raymond Sreboth, superintendent, Benton Harbor Area Schools; Richard Ziehmer, superintendent, Covert Public Schools; Edward C. McKinney, superintendent, Baldwin…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Pugh, George E.; Krasnakevich, John – 1971
This analysis is designed to provide Health, Education and Welfare and local school officials with a more objective and uniform assessment of desegregation problems in specific districts in the United States. To carry out the study, Lambda Corporation designed and implemented an analysis procedure for systematically assigning students to schools.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy
