Harris County (Ga.) School District staff members practice evacuation procedures for students with various special needs.

While it may not be ideal for transportation staff to be involved in every step of the Individualized Education Program process, it is essential for them to communicate with parents and related service staff to acquire information that may directly impact a student’s safe travel to and from school.

The securement equipment supplier will honor a special-needs driver for standout service for the second year in a row. The winner will receive $1,000.

Normand Pâquet will be in charge of future strategies and business development. He has been Micro Bird’s vice president of sales and marketing for 11 years.

Timothy Galbreath with Somerville (Texas) Independent School District allegedly leaves a student with special needs alone on the bus all day. He is charged with abandoning or endangering a child.