Transportation Safety Links

Listed below are several important pupil transportation safety links that you and your NISD students may be interested in viewing. These include transportation safety links for children, links for parents and professionals, and links for the drivers, assistants and transportation supervisors.

Children's School Bus Safety

National Highway Transportation Safety Administration--Make the Right Call To EMS (This is an important children's web site on how they can keep calm, stay focused and get the call done to 9-1-1.)

National Highway Transportation Safety Administration--Back To School Safety (This link has back to school safety reminders for children including preparing for the school bus ride.)

National Highway Transportation Safety Administration--Safety City (for Kids) (This is a web site for school bus safety that is very child friendly.)

National School Transportation Association (NSTA) School Bus Safety Guide (This is a comprehensive web site for bus safety.)

NHTSA School Bus Safety Publications--School Bus Safety: Safe Passage For America's Children (This is also a comprehensive school bus safety web site for children.)

Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (Children may receive a presentation at their school from a real locomotive engineer who talks about bus safety at all railroad crossing.)

Scholastic's The National School Bus (This is a children's web site that provides excellent information for youngsters about school bus safety.)

School Bus and School Loading Zone Safety Kids Page (This link provides safety information about children at the loading zone and on the bus that is for children.)

School Bus Safety Web (This link is a very helpful web site for children and school bus safety.)

Texas Association For Pupil Transportation (TAPT) School Bus Safety Poster Contest (K-6 artists generate posters with a particular school bus safety theme each year and have their work judged by transportation supervisors in competition with other entrants statewide.)

Texas School Bus Safety Speech Contest (This speech contest is intended to encourage high school students to be conscious of the importance of school bus safety and promote academic achievement.)

National School Bus Links

For Parents and Professionals

Americans with Disabilities Act Frequently Asked Questions (Since 1990 when ADA was passed there have been many frequently asked questions particularly about the relationship between ADA, IDEA and Section 504. See another link listed below about these three federal laws.)

Health Finder Index (Information on Diseases and Treatment) (This link provides avery comprehensive listing of student diseases and health issues.)

Homeless Student Bussing (This link discusses homeless student bussing and the issues as they relate to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Federal legislation)

National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) (The National Association for Pupil Transportation provides a discussion of safety issues for school bus personnel.)

NHTSA--Guideline For The Safe Transportation of Preschool Children (This is a very comprehensive article concerning the issues of school bus safety for preschoolers.)

NHTSA--Child Passenger Safety (This link provides lots of information about students using child safety seats/Child Safety Restraint Systems (CSRS) on the school bus.

National School Bus Safety Week Resource Guide and Activity Booklet (This link emphasizes National School Bus Safety Week and safety throughout the year.)

Overview of ADA, IDEA and Section 504 (This link provides an overview of all three very important special needs laws)

U.S. Department of Education (USDOE)--Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (This link is a comprehensive listing of the IDEA federal law and recent changes in the Federal Regulations.)

USDOE--No Child Left Behind (This link provides a description of the newest federal law to provide transportation to children who may be otherwise neligible for school transportation.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)--Child Care Bureau (In this link is a comprehensive listing of child care health issues that should be of interest to parents and professiionals alike.)

Texas School Bus Personnel Links

Texas Association For Pupil Transportation (TAPT) (This link is our state-level version of NAPT (see above) for school bus professionals)

Texas Department of Public Safety (Check out their school bus safety section)

School Bus Safety Publications

School Bus Fleet (This is the school bus industry web page of a free monthly magazine that covers school bus safety geared for the school bus professional. Note the excellent and lively content of the Forum groups on this web page.)

School Transportation News (This is a link to a free monthly magazine that covers school bus safety geared for the school bus professional.)