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Modified Transportation

Transportation Teams: These procedures must be a joint education effort between families and school personnel.

• Student Registration is available for bus transportation in the Make Your Choice

registration process.

• Students will be encouraged to maintain social distancing while at the bus stop and

throughout the bus ride (if possible).

• Attendance will be taken daily. Students not in attendance for 2 consecutive days may

need to re-register for the school bus.

• Students will be assigned seats based on their stop order during pick up/drop off. Seats

will be assigned starting from back of the bus to the front of the bus to ensure social

distancing.

• Students must wear facial coverings while riding the bus.

• The Transportation Team, in conjunction with the driver, will establish seating charts with

social distancing in mind to the best of their ability.

• Although the CDC recommends cleaning buses once a day, our District will sanitize

buses between each route and drivers will sanitize high touch surfaces on vehicles

between routes.

• Buses will be sanitized using an electrostatic sprayer biweekly.

• Regular routes will be followed and adjustments made as needed for actual ridership.

• The District will deploy 50 buses equipped with WiFi to increase connectivity in select

neighborhoods, when feasible.

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ICSP Updated 2/9/21