| 1. | Assessing and Evaluating School Bus Driver Records
Audience: Day Cares & Head Start Agencies, Directors, Lead Drivers, Supervisors, Transportation Administrators |
| Provide information regarding how to request driving records for school bus drivers and how to assess points based on Texas Transportation Code 521.022. |
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| 2. | Bus Driver Training - Initial Certification
Audience: Bus Drivers |
| Participate in the initial safety-training course to become a certified Texas school bus driver. Delivered in English and in compliance with all state and federal requirements, the course meets the 20-hour requirement and addresses the designated fourteen chapters in the Texas School Bus Driver& ... |
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| 3. | Bus Driver Training - Initial Certification (Spanish)
Audience: Bus Drivers |
| Participate in the initial safety-training course to become a certified Texas school bus driver. Delivered in Spanish and in compliance with all state and federal requirements, the course meets the 20-hour requirement and addresses the designated fourteen chapters in the Texas School Bus Dr ... |
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| 4. | Bus Driver Training - Recertification
Audience: Bus Drivers |
| Participate in the eight-hour refresher-training course to maintain current driver skills and meet the three-year requirement for recertification as a Texas school bus driver. Delivered in English, the course is in compliance with all state and federal requirements and includes the required designate ... |
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| 5. | Bus Driver Training -- Recertification (Spanish)
Audience: Bus Drivers |
| Participate in the eight-hour refresher-training course to maintain current driver skills and meet the three-year requirement for recertification as a Texas school bus driver. Delivered in Spanish, the course is in compliance with all state and federal requirements and includes the required designate ... |
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| 6. | Child Passenger Safety Training for Transporters
Audience: Bus Drivers, Supervisors |
| Examine characteristics of the pre-school age population. Explore occupant protection systems used in school buses to transport infant and preschool-age children. Gain experience in using proper securement techniques, identifying equipment maintenance, disposal, and storage issues. This definitive ... |
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| 7. | Pupil Transportation Services Advisory Committee
Audience: District Administrators, Supervisors, Transportation Administrators |
| Discuss current issues on regional, state and national levels. Share information about driver training needs and identify topics for future staff development, customized services and products that will positively impact student behavior, academic achievement and safe transportation practices. |
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| 8. | Special Needs Emergency Evacuation
Audience: Directors, Dispatchers, Lead Drivers, Occupational/Physical Therapists, Supervisors, Trainers |
| This class is desgined to provide training and promote activities that will assist the attendee with the development of a spcial needs emergency evacuation training program for their school district. The class will consist of classroom lecture and hands-on training in the classroom and on a school bu ... |
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| 9. | Special Needs Transportation Leadership Focus Group Meeting
Audience: Bus Attendants, Bus Driver Instructor, Bus Drivers, Directors, Supervisors/Coordinators, Trainers |
| Attend this meeting to network with other transportation personnel whose responsibilities are in the area of special needs transportation. The focus is to share information, policies, forms and methods for safe transportation of our special students, and to keep abreast of all state and federal laws ... |
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| 10. | Supervisor's Drug & Alcohol Training
Audience: Directors, Dispatchers, Lead Drivers, Supervisors, Trainers |
| Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration CFR 382.603 requires supervisors to be trained in recognizing signs of alcohol or drug abuse. The training will be used by the supervisors to determine whether reasonable suspicion exists to require a driver to undergo testing under CFR 382.307. The trainin ... |
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