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The article focuses on the efforts of school administrators in integrating school bus safety, in response to security threats and safety concerns in the U.S. New Jersey lawmakers drafted a series of bills aimed at improving school bus safety, including one that would make it a crime for bus driver applicants to make false statements about their employment and medical histories. INSET: Design Shift Makes Buses Safer.

Focuses on the safety of school buses in the United States. Story of driver Felice Leone and 13-year-old student Cindy Volpe; Other school bus-related accidents; Standard procedures of various states on drivers; Proposed bill by Representative James A. Traficant. INSETS: Getting Rid of a Problem Driver by J.P.;Safety-First Rules for Kids.

Discusses ways of preventing school-bus accidents in the United States. National Transportation Safety Board's call on state officials to test their signals at rail crossings with traffic-signal preemption systems to make sure the timing was correct; Training of bus drivers; Debate over federal construction standards to prevent body-chassis separation.

Discusses various aspects of school bus accident prevention in the province of Quebec. Results of investigations on two school bus-related accidents; Roles of schoolchildren, school bus drivers, motorists, school boards, parents and the government in school bus safety programs; Role of the coroner in bus related-accident prevention.

Focuses on the controversy on the issue about whether public school buses should have seat belts in the U.S. Resistance of federal regulators against proposing laws requiring seat belts for school buses that weigh more than 10,000 pounds; Contention of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Importance of compartmentalization. INSET: Turn off your cruise control..

The article covers three separate traffic accidents involving buses that killed five children in Indiana, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania.

The article reports that a U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the Hamilton County, Tennessee school district may be liable for a 2016 school bus crash that killed six elementary students on the theory that students' rights were violated by being required to ride with driver Johntony Walker, who had been subject of multiple dangerous driving complaints.

Discusses how a train hit a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven high-school students. Details on what may have gone wrong with a traffic light.

Part II. Focuses on the emergency response in school bus accidents. Components of a school bus that may affect a rescue; Situations that need specialized training; Considerations during a major accident involving a school bus; Positions of a bus that affect the tactics that must be used for extricating trapped passengers; Techniques to achieve entry during incidents of severe bus damage.

Deals with school bus accidents in United States as a challenge to fire fighters, paramedic, emergency medical technicians (EMT) and law enforcer officers. Factors that show the importance of responding to an incident involving a school bus; Types of school buses; Information about the construction of school bus.

The article reports on the renewed calls by public officials in Chattanooga, Tennessee to mandate seat belts in school buses following the November 21, 2016 school bus accident which killed six children and another accident a few later of a bus carrying a Texas cheerleading squad. Topics covered include how the crashes have reignited a national debate about the benefits and challenges of equipping buses with seat belts, and state requirements on seat belts.

The article focuses on the legal issues that school boards may encounter in operating mass transit busing students to and from the school in the U.S. It mentions the need to have well-trained and alert drivers and to maintain fleets well. It states that school bus service is valuable and expensive, and school boards must ensure safety to avoid being blamed when accidents occur. It discusses court cases which involved assault on children, negligent supervision and immunity that happened in school buses. It adds that school boards need to review their bus safety procedures to avoid liability.

The article reports that Susan Jordan, principal at Amy Beverland Elementary School in Oaklandon, Indiana, was killed from saving students who were struck by a school bus in 2016.

A reprint of the article "The Right Stop," by Edward F. Dragan, which appeared in the December 2007 issue of "American School Board Journal" is presented. It states that bus stop safety is a growing concern in many school districts, which can be attributed to several factors, including school bus accident statistics. It is inferred that treating each stop as unique is the best way to ensure a high degree of bus stop safety. It offers a list of the four key elements for selecting and maintaining bus stops.

The article looks at report in the November 2006 issue of "Pediatrics" which stated that children riding school buses suffer more injuries than previous public data have suggested. The study, which examined a U.S. database of emergency room visits, suggests that the data sources may be underestimating the number of children injured on school buses because those sources only focus on more serious accidents, or on those that take place during transportation to and from school during the school year.

The article reports that Bus Radio company is preparing to install its equipment and programs for free on 800 U.S. school buses in 11 states in the fall of 2006. Consumer and child-advocacy groups are voicing objections to the programming which would target children with advertising. The safety of offering any radio programming on buses is also being debated, particularly as two fatal school bus accidents have occurred while radios were being played on the vehicles.

Reports developments in education as of October 2001 in the United States. Violation of the freedom of speech of the relatives of slain parents in a Jefferson County, Colorado school district; Selection of Merrett Stierheim as interim superintendent of Florida's Miami-Dade County schools; Investigation of a Nebraska school bus crash.

The article provides information on the September 16, 2014 death of Laura Zborowski, a bus driver in the Akron, Ohio school district who was killed after moving a student out of the way of a rolling bus during a safety evacuation drill. Details are provided on a vigil held for Zborowski and grief counseling services offered to students who witnessed the accident.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being hit by a school bus driver and ending up receiving a personal letter from the driver.

Presents the results of a study on how to improve the behavior of children inside a school bus. Implementation of a program that involved painting a stencil outline of a school bus on the sidewalk pavement; Increasing children's awareness of the hazards of unsafe behavior.

The article discusses how U.S. postal worker Bettye Windom and nurse Beth Insley, when they saw smoke coming from a Port Gibson High School bus driving in Georgetown, Mississippi, managed to evacuate the passengers before the bus exploded into flames in April 2014.

The article discusses efforts in several states including Oklahoma, Connecticut, and Massachusetts wherein school districts are using exterior school bus cameras to identify drivers who pass school buses while they are stopped and explores laws associated with the issue.

The article reports on the school bus accident in Hengyang County, Hunan Province in China on December 27, 2010.

The article reports on the collision of a school bus transporting pupils from Portland Primary School in Berkinhead, England on its return from a day trip to Wrexham, Wales.

The article offers information related to good deeds. It states that American Ramp Services owner John Wright donated 30-foot steel ramp to the 34-year-old wheelchair user Cordelia Simpson of Elyria, Ohio after thieves stole her wooden ramp. Peter Trovato funded the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund to cover the college education of the children of servicemen who died in Iraq or Afghanistan. Lorie Aliano was called Super Mom after she managed to stop a school bus from hitting pre-schoolers.

The article reports on an increase in debates over the use of seat belts in school buses that has been triggered by the 2010 death of high school student Vikas Parikh of Connecticut, who was killed in a school bus accident.