EEAEA:  BUS DRIVER EXAMINATION AND TRAINING

The School Committee will reserve the right to approve or disapprove persons employed by the bus contractor to drive school transportation vehicles.

1. Courteous and careful drivers will be required.

2. Each driver will file with school officials a medical certificate.

3. No person under 18 years of age and only persons of high character will be allowed to operate school buses.

4. Only persons who are properly licensed by the state and have completed the driver-training program will be permitted to drive school buses.

5. The contractor will furnish the School Committee with a list of names of drivers and their safety records for the last three years.

6. In case of any change of bus drivers, the contractor will notify the school departments bus coordinator as soon as possible prior to the change or as soon after the change as possible.

7. The contractor will provide all necessary information so the Georgetown Public Schools may conduct CORI checks on drivers.

LEGAL REFS:             Highway Safety Program Standard no. 17

                                    M.G.L. 90;7B; 90:8A; 90:8A 1/2

SOURCE:  Georgetown

Adopted on December 20, 2007