REMARKS
Explanation of limited travel time for students with IEPs
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3 min
Glenn Risbrook provides a detailed explanation of how limited travel time works for students with IEPs. He describes the complexities of routing these students and the impact on overall bus capacity.
- Explains that limited travel time students often require last pickup, first drop-off arrangements
- Highlights that accommodating limited travel time can require multiple buses instead of one
- Notes that mid-year additions of limited travel time students can disrupt existing routes
Glenn Risbrook
1:05:05
Maybe, but I just shared.
1:05:06
But thank you for the question.
1:05:08
Cheers.
1:05:09
I just wanted I want to ask you a question directly.
1:05:12
I just want to know if I can go back a moment just to clarify some issues with limited time travel.
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So that way everyone's clear on what that is, chair
Farah Louis
1:05:20
chair chair Juan?
1:05:22
Yes, question.
Glenn Risbrook
1:05:24
I've asked some direct questions, but I wanna know if I have a few moments to go back to to some clarity on limited time travel.
1:05:30
It's very important.
1:05:32
One of the issues that I wanted to bring out when when you mentioned about the 36 to 40 minutes for general land is because that's a function of the of the service that is in district only, that's in district busing only.
1:05:44
For our students in in with IAPs, on curb the school, they train travel beyond the district, beyond the borough, around the entire state.
1:05:52
So it's a little it's a different situation.
1:05:55
But I I do also wanna take everyone police for a moment just to they wanna understand what limited time travel how we route it and what goes in the knowledge to do this.
1:06:06
At the beginning of of the school year, we we have a set of students that require limited time travel.
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The router will then look for ways to make sure that that student is where he lives, where the route will will actually comply with his limited time.
1:06:22
In other words, they will try to make sure that student is the last student that gets on in the morning.
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And the 1st student that gets off in the afternoon.
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So what that does sometimes if they're not able to do that, they have to create routes that take less students in order to accommodate the limited time.
1:06:39
What that does also is restrict the amount of resources that we have to bus all of our students.
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So what I'm what I'm pointing out here is that we may have 30 students that may be able to fit on one bus, but because of the because of limit time travel, instead of needing one driver and one bus, we may need 3 drivers and 3 bus is to accommodate limited time travel.
1:07:00
Now during the school year and I'll do this as quickly as possible.
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During the school year, when we receive students that have limited time travel, the grader has to go through a different analysis.
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He has to find feasible route that services to school and also close to where the student lives.
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Oftentimes, he will try to find where the student would be able to be the last one on in the in the morning, and the first one on in the afternoon.
1:07:23
But most times, he will have to do something called resequencing of the bus route.
1:07:29
Meaning that the students that were already riding on the bus will now have to have their position or their stop changed in order to accommodate a student in limited time travel.
1:07:40
And one of the things that I've been taught as working here in transportation is that consistency for us doing as our most vulnerable students is very important.
1:07:49
But what this does is now where a student has been accustomed to a certain pickup time and a certain drop off time, that changes.
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Another thing that may happen is that we may have to remove students off our already constructed route in order to accommodate a student with limited time travel.
1:08:07
So now what happens there is now if the student was accustomed to the driver intended, now there's a new driver intended.
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The students were accustomed to their contemporaries that were on the bus, their their friends, and all that stuff, they mixed make transportation easier for them.
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That changes.
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So these are the analysis that we have to we have to go through every single day.
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Now multiply that by 6000.
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We currently have 6000 students that require limited time travel on our bus routes.
1:08:37
15 years ago, it was 1000.
1:08:39
So I just wanted to explain what the universe of of transportation with students on limited time travel.
Julie Won
1:08:45
Sorry.
