JCPS using 'staggered reopening plan,' announces short-term solutions to bus issues

THIS DISTRICT IS MAKING TO ITS TRANSPORTATION PLAN. RANDALL. VICKI, THE SUPERINTENT SAYS TECHNOLOGY WASN맥스카지노�T IN PLACE FOR BUS ROUTES TO BE COMPLETED IN A REASONABLE TIME. HE ALSO SAYS A LACK OF TECHNOLOGY AT CPS LED TO POOR COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES, SOME OF WHOM WERE LEFT WITH NO IDEA WHERE THEIR KIDS WERE. DEEP INTO THE EVENING. SO ONE OF THE GREATEST ERRORS, I THINK WE HAD LAST WEEK WAS NOT HAVING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES AND WE ARE CORRECTING THAT. JCPS PARENTS WERE SCARED AND CONCERNED WHEN THEIR KIDS WERE STILL ON THE BUS. SOME WHERE HOURS AFTER SCHOOL HAD BEEN LET OUT. IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK. ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. IT WAS SUCH A DEBACLE. SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CLOSED EVER SINCE. NOW THE DISTRICT IS MAKING CHANGES BEFORE SCHOOL REOPENS. PHASE ONE INVOLVES PUTTING TECHNOLOGY INTO THE HANDS OF PARENTS. A MOBILE APP WILL BE AVAILABLE SO PARENTS CAN TRACK THEIR CHILD맥스카지노�S BUS BY PHONE AND THEY WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE BUS IS SO THEY CAN HAVE NOTIFICATIONS AS WELL IN THE MORNING AND THE AFTERNOON. SO THAT IF THEY WANT TO KNOW WHEN THEIR BUS IS FIVE MINUTES AWAY OR ENTERING A NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY COULD SET AN APPLICATION OR A NOTIFICATION FOR THAT. POLLIO SAYS HE HOPES TO HAVE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP TO PARENTS BY FRIDAY OR EARLY NEXT WEEK AT THE LATEST. ANOTHER SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF SLOW BUS ROUTES IS HAVING VANS AND DRIVERS AVAILABLE TO TAKE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS HOME AND BACK. KINDERGARTNERS AREN맥스카지노�T ALLOWED TO GET OFF A BUS UNLESS A PARENT IS WAITING, POLIO SAYS. ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, SOME PARENTS WEREN맥스카지노�T WAITING AT THEIR CHILD맥스카지노�S BUS STOP, FORCING THE DRIVER TO ABANDON HIS ROUTE AND RETURN TO SCHOOL. ALL INSTEAD OF STOPPING THAT PARTICULAR ROUTE AND SENDING THE CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL. WE WILL SEND A BUS OR A CAR TO THAT STUDENT SO THAT WE CAN MEET THEM AND AND ASSIST THEM WITH THEIR FAMILY. WAIT FOR THE FAMILY, AND THEN MAKE SURE THE ROUTE CONTINUES. DURING HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, POLLIO ADDED, THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED FOCUS ON MAKING SURE EVERY STUDENT HAS A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHICH BUS THEY RIDE AND WHERE THEIR STOP IS, AND BUS DRIVERS WILL GET AN ASSISTANT IF REQUESTED. WE맥스카지노�RE GOING TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL JCPS STAFF MEMBER. WE맥스카지노�RE KIND OF CALLING A SHOULDER BUDDY WITH A CELL PHONE AND GPS ON THE BUSSES FOR OUR LONGEST, MOST CHALLENGING ROUTES. WE맥스카지노�VE AGAIN, SCHOOL WILL RESUME FRIDAY FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. HIGH SCHOOL IS BACK ON MONDAY. AS FOR WHAT CAUSE ALL THIS? WELL, AMONG THE ISSUES, THE SUPERINTEND ENT SAYS A TRANSPORTATION PLAN WAS IN PLACE THIS SUMMER. BUT BECAUSE SO MANY STUDENTS MOVED IN AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT, MORE THAN 5000 STOPS HAD TO BE ADDED TO THAT PLAN. THE PROBLEM IS EXTRA TIME FOR THOSE STOPS WASN맥스카지노�T BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM. THAT맥스카지노�S AN ISSUE THE DISTRICT FEELS THEY HAVE FIXED, ALTHOUGH JCPS OFFICIALS WARN THERE WILL BE SOME BUSSING PROBLEMS WHEN SCHOOL RESUMES. AS FOR MAKING UP DAYS MISSED BECAUSE OF BUSSING ISSUES, THE SUPERINTENDENT SAYS THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL DETERMINE HOW THOSE DAYS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR. DETAILS ON ALL THIS ON OUR WEBSITE,

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JCPS says students will be brought back to school with a "staggered reopening plan." After canceling several days to work on a bus fiasco, here's the plan to get kids back to school:Elementary, middle school students return Friday, Aug. 18High school students: Monday, Aug. 21Note: If a school has multi-levels, that means students return on different days, with their levels.JCPS staff will report back to work on Tuesday, Aug. 15.Officials also released short-term solutions while they sort out long-term implementations.Here's what will be implemented now: JCPS will implement technology allowing parents and schools to know where a student's bus is during the ride to and from school. They will provide families with instructions on how to use this technology soon. JCPS will have vans and drivers available to take elementary students home or back to school when they don't have an adult waiting at a stop. This will allow drivers to continue their routes without returning to the original school. JCPS will provide an extra bus or van at depots to take students home when/if they arrive late to the depot so all other depot buses can continue their routes without waiting for one or two final buses to arrive. There will be an additional JCPS staff member with a cell phone and GPS on buses with the longest, most challenging routes to help with directions and communicate with schools and bus compounds when a bus runs excessively late. JCPS will reduce the length of routes with lots of stops, starting with afternoon runs. All elementary and middle school families who need Special Needs Transportation will receive a phone call by Wednesday evening with their transportation information. Watch Pollio's full news conference in the player below:Pollio said that JCPS' systems and technology within their transportation are "antiquated" and something they'll be addressing in the long term.One of the failures that Pollio addressed again was to communicate with parents last Wednesday. He said introducing the tracking app will help eliminate worrying for parents who want to know exactly where their child is.He said he hopes to have the tracking app feature ready by Friday so that elementary and middle school parents can utilize it. As for parents without a smartphone, they'll be able to call their child's school and find out where the bus is.With the addition of "shoulder buddies," who will be helping drivers with GPS and directions, Pollio said he hopes this will alleviate some of the issues experienced on the first day.Although the end goal is to have GPS installed on all buses, Pollio once again said that state law has specific requirements they're working to navigate. Read more about those requirements here.While he didn't give specifics, he said that employees who volunteer to be "shoulder buddies" will receive extra pay. These will not be permanent roles, and Pollio gave a roughly two-week timeline for them being used.Some had questioned the artificial intelligence system that JCPS employed to help create the new bus routes this year, thinking that it may have created issues. Pollio said that AlphaRoute has several employees in Jefferson County working on efficiency and making sure that students arrive at stops at the correct times.He said it would have been easy to blame them for the first-day mishap, but that wasn't the case.Pollio harped on making sure that once schools return that students arrive at their stops at the right time, but it will be a collective effort. "These will be like first days again, so there could be more delayed at times," he said.One of the other issues surrounding this was students not knowing where to get off, which Pollio said will be something to work on. He wants to get to a point where students and bus drivers get to know each other and their stops so the routes run more smoothly.JCPS is also working on having the missed days forgiven, but it will depend on the winter weather and state requirements."This was our mistake," Pollio said." We're going to do as much as we can to have days forgiven."He said the goal is not to extend the school year into the summer, which could mean converting some faculty-only days into student days. The JCPS Board of Education will be making a decision on make-up days later.While JCPS is still out of school on, meal sites will remain open for students on Tuesday and Thursday. Click here to see a full list of those sites.More about the JCPS bus situationOn the first day back to school, last Wednesday, the district anticipated challenges with various new school start times and bus routes.But what happened was more than challenging. The district itself called it a "transportation disaster."Some kids didn't get home until just before 10 p.m.Students haven't returned to school since. The district implemented "snow days" from Thursday to Tuesday.JCPS says it used an AI system to create the bus routes.

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JCPS says students will be brought back to school with a "staggered reopening plan."

After canceling several days to work on a bus fiasco, here's the plan to get kids back to school:

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Elementary, middle school students return Friday, Aug. 18
High school students: Monday, Aug. 21

Note: If a school has multi-levels, that means students return on different days, with their levels.

JCPS staff will report back to work on Tuesday, Aug. 15.

Officials also released short-term solutions while they sort out long-term implementations.

Here's what will be implemented now:

JCPS will implement technology allowing parents and schools to know where a student's bus is during the ride to and from school. They will provide families with instructions on how to use this technology soon.
JCPS will have vans and drivers available to take elementary students home or back to school when they don't have an adult waiting at a stop. This will allow drivers to continue their routes without returning to the original school.
JCPS will provide an extra bus or van at depots to take students home when/if they arrive late to the depot so all other depot buses can continue their routes without waiting for one or two final buses to arrive.
There will be an additional JCPS staff member with a cell phone and GPS on buses with the longest, most challenging routes to help with directions and communicate with schools and bus compounds when a bus runs excessively late.
JCPS will reduce the length of routes with lots of stops, starting with afternoon runs.
All elementary and middle school families who need Special Needs Transportation will receive a phone call by Wednesday evening with their transportation information.

Watch Pollio's full news conference in the player below:

Pollio said that JCPS' systems and technology within their transportation are "antiquated" and something they'll be addressing in the long term.

One of the failures that Pollio addressed again was to communicate with parents last Wednesday. He said introducing the tracking app will help eliminate worrying for parents who want to know exactly where their child is.

He said he hopes to have the tracking app feature ready by Friday so that elementary and middle school parents can utilize it. As for parents without a smartphone, they'll be able to call their child's school and find out where the bus is.

With the addition of "shoulder buddies," who will be helping drivers with GPS and directions, Pollio said he hopes this will alleviate some of the issues experienced on the first day.

Although the end goal is to have GPS installed on all buses, Pollio once again said that state law has specific requirements they're working to navigate. Read more about those requirements here.

While he didn't give specifics, he said that employees who volunteer to be "shoulder buddies" will receive extra pay. These will not be permanent roles, and Pollio gave a roughly two-week timeline for them being used.

Some had questioned the artificial intelligence system that JCPS employed to help create the new bus routes this year, thinking that it may have created issues. Pollio said that AlphaRoute has several employees in Jefferson County working on efficiency and making sure that students arrive at stops at the correct times.

He said it would have been easy to blame them for the first-day mishap, but that wasn't the case.

Pollio harped on making sure that once schools return that students arrive at their stops at the right time, but it will be a collective effort.

"These will be like first days again, so there could be more delayed at times," he said.

One of the other issues surrounding this was students not knowing where to get off, which Pollio said will be something to work on. He wants to get to a point where students and bus drivers get to know each other and their stops so the routes run more smoothly.

JCPS is also working on having the missed days forgiven, but it will depend on the winter weather and state requirements.

"This was our mistake," Pollio said." We're going to do as much as we can to have days forgiven."

He said the goal is not to extend the school year into the summer, which could mean converting some faculty-only days into student days.

The JCPS Board of Education will be making a decision on make-up days later.

While JCPS is still out of school on, meal sites will remain open for students on Tuesday and Thursday. Click here to see a full list of those sites.

More about the JCPS bus situation

On the first day back to school, last Wednesday, the district anticipated challenges with various new school start times and bus routes.

But what happened was more than challenging. The district itself called it a "transportation disaster."

Some kids didn't get home until just before 10 p.m.

Students haven't returned to school since. The district implemented "snow days" from Thursday to Tuesday.

JCPS says it used an AI system to create the bus routes.

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