Private School Bus Schedules have been updated!

*PARENTS*

If you see an inconsistency in your bus schedule, would like to change or add a bus stop, do not see an appropriate bus stop, or would like to confirm your student's bus stop, please contact your school.  Secretaries return August 16th.

If your student is identified and you believe specialized transportation was arranged by a case manager before the end of last year, you may contact STS at 668-8603 to confirm.  If at that time there is still a question regarding your student's transportation, please contact your school.

TRANSPORTATION GUIDELINES

Students are eligible for bus transportation if they live 1.4 miles or more from their districted school, or in some cases, if they are required to cross busy or dangerous streets to get to school.

Bus schedules, with times and locations of bus stops, are published and will be available on the Manchester School District web site in the weeks before school starts (does not apply to High Schoolers who must purchase tickets). Please consult this site to determine if changes have been made or call the school.  

If your students are assigned to a bus, you will receive notification in the weeks before school.  If your students will not be taking the bus, or if you need to update your information at the school, please contact your student's school.  

A new bus policy has been passed (June, 2009) by the Board of School Committee which outlines eligibility, behavioral expectations for students, and discipline for failure to comply with expectations.

Transportation to qualified after school programs begins two weeks after the start of school.  (Sept 16, 2010 for public school, Sept 13, 2010 for approved private schools)

Students with special needs and students in magnet ELL programs may also be eligible for bus transportation. 

Under the McKinney-Vinto act, students who become homeless during the school year need not transfer to another school and can receive transportation from the school district. Please contact your school's Social Worker or the District's Homeless Liaison Jocelyne Pinsonneault at 665-8686.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) provides funds to enable parents to have their child transfer from a state-declared "unsafe" school or a school in state-declared "school improvement" status.  Under NCLB, students who enroll in "School Choice" must be transported by the Manchester School District to their eligible chosen school.