Gwinnett County school board members approved a plan Thursday that would allow administrators to hire companies to pick up students in areas where bus drivers aren’t transporting many pupils to and from school.
District officials say drivers are currently transporting as few as one student and, in some instances, outside of school bus routes. Many of these students have special needs.
State law requires school districts to apply for a waiver if the district can show transporting these students is a hardship. Gwinnett believes hiring a third-party vendor will be more efficient.
“We have a few buses that transport one child to a few children to a program or service elsewhere in the county or outside the county,” district officials said via email. “This pilot (program) would help us look at how we could more effectively transport these students.”
Gwinnett officials want to create a pilot program to examine the benefits of such a change, starting April 1 and concluding June 30, 2017. Officials said they do not have a vendor in place and have no cost estimate for the program. No bus drivers would be affected by the changes, Gwinnett officials said.
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