elimination of appropriations to the Department of Education for state aid to school districts for school bus drivers, aides to drivers, and other transportation needs, funds saved by the Department of Education due to the closure of school bus maintenance facilities, and other funds, including those set aside for the purchase of school buses, all as determined by the General Assembly in the general appropriations act, must be placed annually into a special fund administered by the Department of Education to be known as Transportation Reimbursement All interest or ‘School Fund’. other income of the fund must remain in the fund. Beginning with fiscal year 20122013, the Department of Education shall provide payments to school districts from this fund on a quarterly basis, as these districts begin the operation of their own student transportation, either by employing a private contractor, or by selfoperation, in those amounts determined as provided by this chapter to reimburse them in the form of state aid for their costs incurred in providing school transportation services. Section 5968140. Local school districts, as authorized by Article 3 of this chapter, by contract may engage private entities providing school transportation services to provide student transportation services to all students within the district eligible to be furnished school transportation where the State has assumed this responsibility in the manner provided by law or, in the alternative, may provide these services on its own or together with other districts. Private providers selected must provide complete transportation services for all eligible students in the district. Section 5968150. (A) School bus drivers must be considered for employment by either the private transportation entity awarded a contract to provide school transportation services to the particular district in which the school bus driver works or, alternatively, by the school district in which the school bus driver works if it elects to provide school transportation services itself or together with a group of other districts as provided in Article 3. (B) Employees of school bus maintenance facilities, who are in good standing, must be considered for employment by either the private contractor selected to provide school transportation services in the maintenance area where the employee is employed, or by a school district in the maintenance area where the employee is employed if it elects to provide its own transportation services individually or together with other districts.
elimination of appropriations to the Department of Education for state aid to school districts for school bus drivers, aides to drivers, and other transportation needs, funds saved by the Department of Education due to the closure of school bus maintenance facilities, and other funds, including those set aside for the purchase of school buses, all as determined by the General Assembly in the general appropriations act, must be placed annually into a special fund administered by the Department of Education to be known as ‘School Transportation Reimbursement Fund’. All interest or other income of the fund must remain in the fund. Beginning with fiscal year 20122013, the Department of Education shall provide payments to school districts from this fund on a quarterly basis, as these districts begin the operation of their own student transportation, either by employing a private contractor, or by selfoperation, in those amounts determined as provided by this chapter to reimburse them in the form of state aid for their costs incurred in providing school transportation services. Section 5968140. Local school districts, as authorized by Article 3 of this chapter, by contract may engage private entities providing school transportation services to provide student transportation services to all students within the district eligible to be furnished school transportation where the State has assumed this responsibility in the manner provided by law or, in the alternative, may provide these services on its own or together with other districts. Private providers selected must provide complete transportation services for all eligible students in the district. Section 5968150. (A) School bus drivers must be considered for employment by either the private transportation entity awarded a contract to provide school transportation services to the particular district in which the school bus driver works or, alternatively, by the school district in which the school bus driver works if it elects to provide school transportation services itself or together with a group of other districts as provided in Article 3. (B) Employees of school bus maintenance facilities, who are in good standing, must be considered for employment by either the private contractor selected to provide school transportation services in the maintenance area where the employee is employed, or by a school district in the maintenance area where the employee is employed if it elects to provide its own transportation services individually or together with other districts.
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