The Kentucky Department of Education's Pupil Transportation Branch is dedicated to the safe transport of Kentucky's school children.

New – Special Safety Concerns of the School Bus …- 2010 - Every weekday in the school year school transportation systems in the United States operate approximately 440,000 yellow school buses to provide safe transportation for more than 24 million school-aged children. This synthesis documents the various safety issues faced by the school bus industry. Safety issues include each aspect of school bus operations, including the driver, environment, equipment/technology, and organizational design. Information was gathered through a literature review and a survey on school bus safety issues that was disseminated to a variety of professionals associated with school bus operations. … (Transportation Research Board of the National Academies)

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• Pulaski Co. school bus drivers ensure positive discipline practices inside school also extend to their buses (click on page 18) - Apr 2010, Kentucky School Advocate, pgs. 18 & 19 – Some school bus drivers in Pulaski County have been doing some positive thinking for the last several months, in the expectation it will rub off on their passengers. …

• Back-to-School: Hop on the bus, Gus, with these safety tips ConsumerReports.org - School bus safety is—if you'll pardon the pun—a two-way street. Take some time to teach children the do's and don'ts of riding the school bus.