CODE: 3541.1
SECTION: BUSINESS AND NON-INSTRUCTIONAL OPERATIONS
TRANSPORTATION ROUTES AND SERVICES
The West Milford Board of Education directs the Superintendent of Schools to supervise development of bus routes to provide safe, economical and reasonably expeditious transportation for:
A. Pupils who live remote from the schoolhouse as defined by law;
B. Educationally handicapped pupils in accordance with their IEP;
C. Pupils participating in Board-approved extracurricular activities or field trips;
D. Pupils whose route to the school is deemed hazardous by the Board;
E. Other pupils as required by law.
The criteria to be used in designing routes and assigning pupils to them shall include:
A. The distance to be traveled to and from school;
B. The age and state of health of the child;
C. The requirements of the instructional program;
D. The hazards involved on the route to be traveled.
The Board may charge parents\guardians for transporting pupils who live within statutory limits. The charge shall include, but not be limited to the cost of fuel, driver salaries and insurance.
Transportation to and from school shall be provided as required by law to eligible nonpublic school pupils and to pupils attending charter schools. All pupils riding on West Milford School District buses shall be required to observe the district's bus conduct regulations or risk loss of the privilege of such transportation.
Buses, whether contracted or district-owned, shall be kept in optimum condition and shall conform to all state safety regulations.
Bus routes must be acted upon by the Board and submitted to the County Office.
First Reading: December 12, 2000
Adopted: December 19, 2000