Successful school bus drivers bring much more than mechanical know-how to the job. They develop good rapport with students while acting to bring undesirable student behavior under control. Drivers must also show an interest in students' welfare and have a good sense of humor. (MLH)

This document outlines measures to enhance the safe transportation of children to and from school. It reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is dedicated to the highest standards of safety in school buses, and it outlines some of the NHTSA guidelines, such as rollover protection, body-joint strength, seat belts,…

Describes a bus system that is fully self-supporting and has a substantial reserve fund for new equipment, with emphasis on details. (GB)

Twenty important things to know when you buy a school bus. (WM)

Reviews current legal principles connected with school desegregation up to the metropolitonization'' controversies being litigated in Detroit and Richmond. (Author)

The counselor must be aware of the effects of busing as well as the psychosocial milieu of both his school and the diverse communities which feed it, if he intends to address himself to the needs of all of his students. (Author)

First Amendment interpretation becomes necessary when attempts are made by the State to act in a way which either inhibits or promotes religion. Reviews those cases that have had a direct impact on the questions of establishment and free exercise of religion in the schools. (Author/JF)

Presents an implicit enumeration algorithm for redrawing school attendance boundaries in order to meet integration requirements. The basis of the approach is the division of the city into smaller areas or zones corresponding to neighborhoods. (Author)

This article analyzes some of the arguments against busing and advocates that busing be implemented even though it has significant limitations as a vehicle for desegregation. (DM)

A special study of school bus transportation that (1) describes board responsibility for bus transportation (2) discusses the merits of buying, leasing, or contracting for buses; (3) points out the inadequacy of State safety requirements; and (4) presents the merits of L.P.-gas powered and diesel powered buses. (JF)

At Northern Illinois University, students pay for an intracampus bus that has relieved transportation problems on the campus. (PG)

For the first time since the Emancipation Proclamation, the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government are seriously entertaining action to limit the rights of racial minorities to unqualified equality of opportunity. (DM)

Staff members at a community mental health center in Tampa, Fla., conducted a seminar on busing aimed at exploring the sources of conflict and preventing trouble in the community. (DM)