NSTA: Update on Ohio transit agency's school service
Source: School Bus Fleet, July 9, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National School Transportation Association's (NSTA) intervention in a deal between the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (GDRTA) and Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools (DPS) could lead the school district to outsource some of its transportation services to a school bus contractor.
Last year, NSTA officials filed a complaint with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) after reading that DPS had entered into a $2 million agreement for GDRTA to take over its transport of high school students.
NSTA alleged that GDRTA violated federal regulations by designing limited service routes that bypassed the agency's regular route system to take students directly from their neighborhoods to their schools in the morning, and home in the afternoon, prompting an investigation by the FTA.