{"id":14117,"date":"2016-06-02T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=13259"},"modified":"2016-09-23T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:18:07","slug":"negotiating-with-the-school-on-transportation-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/negotiating-with-the-school-on-transportation-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Negotiating with the School on Transportation Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Negotiating%20with%20the%20School%20on%20Transportation%20Issues\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My daughter attends public school. She has autism and a BIP. The transportation department refuses to come down our gravel private lane to pick her up at our driveway. I feel it is a safety issue.\u00a0 How can I solve this problem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/girl.school.bus.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"344\" \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Negotiating with the School<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parents need to negotiate with school staff to find acceptable solutions to problems.<\/p>\n<p>Request to talk with the transportation director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read your state laws and regulations about bus transportation for public school students before you meet<\/strong> \u2013 this will give you a good idea of what is required in your state.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought after reading your question was \u201cWhy can\u2019t she transport her child to the hard surface road?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We live in a rural area in Virginia where many families live on farms with homes at the end of long, unpaved driveways.<\/p>\n<p>When school lets out, we see many parents sitting in cars by the paved road, waiting for the school bus so they can drive their kids home.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a possibility?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Does the IEP Include Transportation?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I will presume that your daughter has an IEP. Transportation is a \u201crelated service\u201d like speech therapy, OT, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If her IEP does not include door-to-door transportation and you can\u2019t persuade the transportation director to help, you may need to request an IEP meeting to amend her IEP to include this door-to-door transportation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">More Solutions to the Transportation Issue<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our archives have answers to thousands of questions on hundreds of topics.<\/p>\n<p>You will get fresh ideas by reviewing them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to answers to questions about transportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/database-questions-topics-l-z\/#trans\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/database-questions-topics-l-z\/#trans<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/helpline-topics-t\/\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/helpline-topics-t\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter attends public school. She has autism and a BIP. The transportation department refuses to come down our gravel private lane to pick her up at our driveway. I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/negotiating-with-the-school-on-transportation-issues\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1404,1405],"class_list":["post-14117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ieps","tag-bus-transportation","tag-transportation-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18680,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions\/18680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}