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From CBS News KTXA-TV / TXA 21  / By Caroline Vandergriff / January 27, 2023 CBS DFW FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Fort Worth ISD has taken the first step towards real-time school bus tracking for families, launching a new app to improve communication about transportation issues.  It's something the district promised families back in the fall, after several elementary school students were forced off a school bus at the wrong stop.Through the Stopfinder app, parents and [...]

Karen Torres instituted a new motto this year at Whittier Union High School District (CA): “We want to serve well.”Torres is the transportation director at Whittier Union, a district located in Los Angeles County, California, just 10 miles from the heart of the city. She oversees the transportation of 1,300 students, with about 75 percent of those students having special needs.Serving well is imperative. And it goes beyond transportation.“We don’t want to just transport [...]

From National School Transportation Association: NSTA / January 24, 2023Don't miss the latest NSTA: The Bus Stop. This week at NSTA: The Bus Stop - a special live episode of the podcast from the 2023 NSTA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, California. Executive Director Curt Macysyn is joined Tony Civitella, President and CEO of Transfinder. Tony recaps his experience at the 2023 NSTA Midwinter Meeting and his role in the "Putting a Stop (arm) to Illegal Passing" Panel. The duo outline importance [...]

Patrolfinder will improve community and officer safety

Earned $28.9 million last year, boosted by ongoing shortage of bus drivers which drives the need for efficient routes