Does your district have a simple way to plan for students with multiple stops during the week?
By now, you’ve heard the news. Recent changes in the law now require school districts in Pennsylvania to provide students bus service to both parents’ home when they shared custody.
While that court case may be decided, what hasn’t been decided is how school districts like yours are going to handle that decision on the transportation routing and planning end of things. When a child has to be transported to more than one place, it requires that your routing and planning system be able to assign different stops for students not only in the morning, but also in the afternoon… sometimes in a different order every day of the week.
Sure, it might be easy to imagine creating a routing plan around one or two students, but the reality is, your district probably has many, many students that this new ruling affects.
When shared custody means that students all over your district could have different stops every single day (or even every single morning and afternoon) — that’s a lot of new routes you need to create and plan for. That’s also a lot of precious time, human resources, and dollars that your district just can’t afford to waste doing it the wrong way.
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As analyzed above, Sections 1361 and 1362 of the School Code, and cases interpreting these provisions, require a school district to provide transportation to a resident pupil to and from his residence. Where, as here, the child has two legal residences within the district pursuant to a division of custody, the school district must provide transportation servicing both residences. Consequently, Watts’ right to relief is clear.Judge Robert Simpson, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Opinion for Watts v. Manheim
As analyzed above, Sections 1361 and 1362 of the School Code, and cases interpreting these provisions, require a school district to provide transportation to a resident pupil to and from his residence. Where, as here, the child has two legal residences within the district pursuant to a division of custody, the school district must provide transportation servicing both residences. Consequently, Watts’ right to relief is clear.Judge Robert Simpson, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Opinion for Watts v. Manheim
Our software has the ability to handle these types of situations on a student, stop, and even morning or afternoon bus route level. EDULOG’s powerful, easy-to-use interface makes changes like shared custody for a student simple and fast WITHOUT the need to create new routes every day.
Plus, our software can automatically help you optimize these routes using our improved routing algorithms, so even with all these new changes, you could end up SAVING your school district money.
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