EEAA
WALKERS  AND  RIDERS

The Board authorizes the administration to provide regular school bus transportation to and from school for the following categories:

A.  Students with disabilities who require transportation, as indicated in their respective individual education programs.

If the special education bus has capacity to transport sibling(s) of a special education student, the bus may also transport the sibling(s).

B.  Students who are residents within a school attendance area and:

1.  If common school students, live more than one (1) mile from the school.

2.  If high school students, live more than a mile and a half (1 1/2) from the school.

C.  Transportation for pupils who do not reside within an established school attendance area, limited to no more than twenty (20) miles each way to and from the school of attendance or to and from a pickup point on a regular transportation route or for the total miles traveled each day to an adjacent school for eligible nonresident pupils who meet the economic eligibility requirements established under the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Acts (42 United States Code sections 1751 through 1785) for free or reduced-price lunches.

D.  Transportation for homeless students to their school of enrollment, if it is the school of origin, will be arranged as needed by the school liaison for homeless students.

E  Open-enrolled students (or their parents or guardians) are responsible for their own transportation to a District, regular education bus stop.  If the regular education bus has the capacity to accept open-enrolled students in addition to the students the District is already transporting, then the bus may transport the open-enrolled student.

F.  District buses may make regional stops to transport students attending a District self-contained gifted program.  A student attending a District self-contained gifted program may be transported to the self-contained gifted program that is closest to the student's residence.

G.  Students attending an International Baccalaureate (IB) program may be transported from their home high school to the IB program.

H.  Transportation may be provided from middle school to high school for appropriate-level classes.

I.  Superintendent is authorized to approve additional stops as appropriate.

Adopted:  March 3, 2009

LEGAL REF.:
A.R.S.
15-342
15-764
15-816.01
15-901
15-922
28-797
28-900
28-901
A.G.O.
I80-025
42 U.S.C. 11301, McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2001,
   as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015

CROSS REF.:
JFABD - Admission of Homeless Students