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Springtime Student Safety—It's More Than Just Good Luck! Upcoming March, 2013 Edition Springtime Student Safety—It’s More Than Just Good Luck! Ah, you can smell it in the change. Talk to your students, Changes to what you’ll see along air…..the fresh scent of and talk to the parents you your bus route are also common. springtime! meet in the afternoons so that Watch for children playing and small they can plan accordingly. animals. Look low for bicycles and March is always one of the skateboards or runaway toys (no best times of the year; the Some students may also need skateboards on the bus, please) and weather has started to to be reminded of proper look high for basketball hoops and change, the sun is brighter, conduct on a school bus, such hanging tree limbs. There may not the flowers are peeking out, as sitting down facing the front have been anything there before, and the days are getting in their assigned seats and no but there may be something there longer. eating or drinking on the bus. now. In subdivisions and on main They may also need a reminder roads, there may be different Sunny skies and longer days to be waiting at the bus stop in vehicles on the street. Look once, mean more time to play, and the morning, not running look twice, then look again while more time to play means toward the bus as it students are crossing. that your students will be approaches. The windows will anxious to get home, ditch be coming down soon, and it is These are just a few examples of the books and head outside important that children keep what you can expect, but one thing after school. hands and heads inside the bus is for sure...spring has sprung and at all times for their safety and you will have to keep your EYES For bus drivers and bus for the safety of other open—especially the ones in the attendants, this means that motorists. back of your head— and your Inside this issue: it’s time to start following HANDS on the wheel at all times. your Springtime Student The energy level on a school Safety procedures! bus usually changes when the Springtime Student Safety is more Powered by Propane weather breaks, and it will than just good luck. It is leadership, 2 Many of your students will continue to rise as we get it is caring, it is absolute be staying after school for closer to year’s end. It is our dedication to the big Scholarships 3 sports, clubs or other job to be aware of the changes yellow bus and to the activities, so there may be and harness that energy, so children in our care. fewer children to transport that the rides to and from Springtime Student Tips from the Training 3 and the drop-off times could school can be safe ones for all. Safety is YOU! Room Stolen School Bus 3 Upcoming Calendar Events Wearing Green or 4 Friday, March 1 — MAKE UP DAY Thursday, March 21—First Day of Spring Going Green? Monday, March 4— ―Get Active Get Fit‖ Friday, March 29 — No School; Teacher Workday Welcome Aboard 4 sign-ups begin. Contest starts 03/18. Sunday, March 31—Happy Easter! Wednesday, March 6—School Bus Illegal SCS Wins State 4 Passing Survey Training Award Monday, April 1 to Friday, April 5—Spring Break Why the School Bus Sunday, March 10—Daylight Savings; change Friday, April 19 — No School; Teacher Workday Never Comes in 5 your clocks & check your smoke detectors Green Friday, April 19 — Relay for Life event @ SHS Friday, March 15 — MAKE UP DAY Irish Sayings O’ the 6 Tuesday, April 30 to Friday, May 10—School Bus Month Sunday, March 17—Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Evacuations, Split Door Page 2 Powered by Propane: Greener School Buses School buses have traditionally been the Green Success Stories school district has been using the propane transportation of choice for public school buses since 1983, with great success and students across the country. These big While the idea of switching to propane or cost savings. Weber estimated that it took yellow vehicles have become a mainstay in another form of alternative fuel may sound the district about five years to recoup the both urban and suburban communities, good on paper, how does it stack up in expense of switching to the propane buses, offering students access to school campuses practical use? According to some of the including the cost of propane fuel pumps that might have difficulty getting to and from school districts across the country that have and retrofits. school otherwise. However, budget cuts, made the switch, the proof is in the pudding rising gas prices and concerns over – as well as the savings many of these Going green is one way school districts can their environmental impact have forced districts have enjoyed since converting their cut their budgets and help the environment many school districts to take another look buses. We have just a few examples of at the same time. While propane might not at the diesel-run buses that dominate most school districts that are going green with be the best solution in all school districts, school district today. In some cases, their student transportation options. the schools that have switched to propane- propane buses are providing a cheaper and powered school buses are enjoying more environmentally friendly option. significant savings and the satisfaction of a El Paso Schools reduced carbon footprint. With incentives The Cost of Diesel from the federal government, it may not be In Texas, eight El Paso-area school districts long before other districts nab the benefits have made the switch to propane, according propane offers. The expense of running children to and to a report at the Railroad Commission of from school on diesel buses is not a small Texas website. The project began with 16 one by any means. According to a report in ultra-low emission propane buses, but 56 Article by Grace Chen for the Christian Science Monitor, it is more have been added since the program Public School Review estimated that more than 25 million children began. The districts hope to continue to http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/287 ride the bus to school each day. In some expand their propane-based fleet by areas, year-round schooling means no replacing retiring buses with the newer respite from gas bills over the summer style. The press release reports that these Propane School Buses roll in months. As the number of children requiring buses have cut 14.6 tons of smog-forming Spotsylvania County too... bus transportation remains relatively NOx, 94 tons of carbon monoxide and one consistent, the cost of fuel does not. ton of particulate matter from the El Paso air. It is also estimated that each bus will Our first five propane buses were There are a number of reasons to consider save school districts more than $5,800 the purchased in 2010 with 50% of the propane buses over their diesel first year and $1,250 each year after. initial cost coming from a federal grant counterparts. First, many areas of the program. As part of the grant, a country offer propane filling stations that dedicated ―tank farm‖ was constructed Portland Schools are much cheaper than diesel fuel. A report here at the Transportation lot to fuel issued by the U.S. Department of Energy In Portland, Oregon, the school district the buses. A sixth bus was purchased also estimates that smaller propane tanks this year, and more may be added in the can be cheaper to fill than those holding received $600,000 in federal tax credits for future as older fleet buses are replaced. natural gas, and they are as equally friendly its propane-based buses in 2008. About 90% to the environment. The period between oil of this district's school buses run on changes for propane-run buses can also be propane currently. Phil Weber, Portland's The feedback we have had from the extended, further reducing the cost of director of transportation, told the community has been positive; the buses Christian Science Monitor, "I was not a operating these vehicles. are quiet, odorless and show that we believer in propane. But I crunched the care about our environment. numbers and propane does pay off." This Benefits of Propane Balloon Power...alternative fuel of the future? Cost is also a huge factor; on February Then, there are the government incentives 1st we paid $1.06 per gallon for to consider. In 2008, the federal propane bus fuel compared to $3.85 government appropriated $4.2 million for per gallon for diesel bus fuel (in Spotsy, reducing emissions from diesel engines. a one-cent rise in diesel fuel prices That means money could be available to translates into a $7,000 budget establish the necessary infrastructure for increase). Although miles per gallon is propane, including retrofitting or lower for propane buses than it is for purchasing new buses for this purpose. diesel buses, we anticipate over time School districts might also get a federal tax credit that offers 50 cents back on every that a savings will be realized. gallon of propane used throughout the year. Spotsy is GOING GREEN! Craig Greenlaw, Director of Fleet Services says ―We’re so lucky to work with such professional drivers!‖ Page 3 2013 Scholarships Are Now Available Stay connected! Stay connected! 1. Clyde aka CLYDE W. MORRIS There are 3 different scholarship opportunities for the children or MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Please check your grandchildren of those 2.
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