This plan describes the transportation services the district will offer to students, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for students in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income. The plan shall be adopted by the local educational agency’s governing board on or before April 1, 2023, and updated by April 1 each year thereafter.
Access to Transportation
The Silver Valley Unified School District governing board provides transportation for all pupils residing in our district that require such services. The Board annually approves bus routes according to our students’ needs throughout the district. Silver Valley Unified School District has coordinated our bus stop times to ensure transportation is provided to all TK-12 students.
Those bus stops with a higher percentage of low-income, foster youth, and homeless students will be prioritized on days in which the district is short on busing availability. Silver Valley Unified School District contracts with First Student Transportation who has buses, or SUVs, available to transport students with disabilities as needed.
Transportation Costs
There are no costs to Silver Valley Unified School District students for any transportation provided by the district. This includes transportation to and from school, sporting events, field trips, and any other school functions.
Consultation
Silver Valley Unified School District has regular input into the location and times of the routes for each TK-6 school. The school district and California Highway Patrol approve the final list before it is published to parents and families. Classified staff and school admin who oversee support for pupils with disabilities and homeless children and youth can contact First Student to consider an additional stop. Additionally, Silver Valley USD receives input from classified and certificated staff as well as the Air Quality Management Districts as required by law.
Ed Code 39800.1.
(a) As a condition of receiving apportionments under Section 41850.1, a local educational agency shall develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income. The plan shall be adopted by the local educational agency’s governing board on or before April 1, 2023, and updated by April 1 each year thereafter. The plan shall include the following components:
(1) A description of the local educational agency’s transportation services that would be accessible to pupils with disabilities and homeless children and youth, as defined pursuant to the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.).
(2) A description of how unduplicated pupils, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 42238.02, would be able to access available home-to-school transportation at no cost to the pupils.
(b) (1) The plan shall be developed in consultation with classified staff, teachers, school administrators, regional local transit authorities, local air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, parents, pupils, and other stakeholders.
(2) The plan shall be presented and adopted by the governing board of the local educational agency in an open meeting with the opportunity for in-person and remote public comment.
(c) The plan may provide for the local educational agency to partner with a municipally owned transit system to provide service pursuant to this section to middle school and high school pupils.
(d) Nothing in a local educational agency’s plan shall preclude a local educational agency from providing no-cost transit passes to pupils.
(e) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district or a county office of education.