Funding and Disbursements
Student Transportation Program (School Bus Driver Training)
This program administers activities and provides services in the following areas:
- student transportation operations;
- provides training and certification of school bus driver instructors;
- develops and provides Illinois School Bus Driver Training Curriculum for school bus drivers;
- facilitates federal, state laws, and State Board of Education rules and regulations related to student transportation;
- development of an Administrator's Manual and accompanying materials on pupil transportation safety, laws and rules and regulations;
- works with the school bus industry to communicate best practices in student transportation;
- provides direction and evaluation tools to determine school bus route hazards;
- works with other federal and state agencies to provide safe student transportation and safe bus riding practices;
- developed a special needs transportation resource document and infant, toddlers and preschool transportation resource document; and
- developed a student transportation resource library for school district administrator/transportation director.
Webinars
- Expanded Electronic School Bus Driver Instructor Certification System on IWAS - January 27, 2012
2011 Summer Instructor Training Information
Materials Developed
- School Bus Safety Brochures
- Illinois School Bus Safety Program for Pre-K and Grades K through 8 (Teacher's Guide)
- The New Illinois School Bus Safety Program (video)
- Transportation News and Notes
- Administrator's Manual for the Safe Transportation of Pupils Grades 12 and Below
- Illinois School Bus Driver Training Curriculum
- Infant, Toddlers and Preschool Transportation
- Special Needs Student Transportation
- Part 120 Transportation Reimbursement
- School Bus Discipline Policies
