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School Bus Attendant ID Program

By Marvin Lee | Executive Director, Transportation & Procurement| School District of Philadelphia

he School District of Philadelphia employs Only contracted bus attendants with complete
more than 350 bus attendants as school district background checks will be invited to a mandatory training
Temployees and oversees an additional 1,000 bus where they learn about different of types of disabilities and
attendants via its 20 bus, school vehicle and cab providers. student management on the bus. After the training, each
attendant will receive a photo ID. Attendants are mandated
To address issues around compliance, oversight and to scan their ID twice a day at the school to confirm their
billing, the School District of Philadelphia is implementing attendance. Each participating school will be provided with
the School Bus Attendant ID with School-Based Tablet a tablet that has two main functionalities: GPS tracking of
program in the beginning of SY18-19. This program their buses and allowing attendants to sign in.
ensures that 100% of contracted bus attendants’ background
checks are completed, mandates contracted bus attendants The School District of Philadelphia works with more
participate in the than 500 public, charter and non-public schools in and
district’s mandatory around Philadelphia, providing vehicular transportation to
behavior support more than 40,000 students via 1,900+ routes. The School
training before being District of Philadelphia also provides more than 63,000
assigned to bus public transportation passes to students in the region.
routes and increases
completeness and
accuracy of vendor
attendant billing.

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