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Adapt, Advance, Achieve: Connecticut’s Plan to Learn and Grow Together
Transportation
Providing student transportation to schools is an important legal mandate that requires ensuring
that all students have access to education at school.
The CSDE will work strategically to plan for the fall with LEAs, and particularly with school
choice programs, which face the additional challenges of multi-town transportation for
students as plans are developed which adhere to these guidelines.
Preparation
Guidance
• Consider gathering data from families to properly plan for resuming classes in the fall,
including an assessment of the number students expected to attend, and whether
parents or guardians plan to transport their children.
• Consult with municipal leaders, including public safety officials, to assess the
approach if the school determines parents/guardian transportation is an option,
including whether the school can safely accommodate the traffic, and whether local
streets will be impacted.
• Understand that parents or guardians generally cannot be compelled to transport
their children if they choose not to, in which case the LEA maintains responsibility for
transporting the student.
• Include all transportation providers, including public and contracted bus company
representatives where applicable, in planning a return to service.
Pick Up/Drop Off
Guidance
• Assess if a staggered arrival and drop off, properly communicated, will enhance
safety protocols in place.
• Plan vehicle flow and logistics particularly if there are more family transport vehicles.
• Consider arrival/departure procedures that limit unnecessary entrance of parents and
guardians into the building.
Family or Guardian Transport
Guidance
• Consider ways to encourage parents and/or guardians to transport their children to
schools. If parent and/or guardian transport is likely, schools should plan to safely
accommodate new traffic patterns and foot traffic.
• Keep in mind the feasibility and availability of alternate transportation by parents/
guardians.