City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0241R

• File #: 11-0241R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Laws and Policies Governing the Baltimore City Public Schools in Providing the Safe Transport of Special Needs Students by the School System and its Contractor Bus Companies and Recommendations for Additions to Existing Governance
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/10/2011
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/24/2011
• Title: Informational Hearing - Laws and Policies Governing the Baltimore City Public Schools in Providing the Safe Transport of Special Needs Students by the School System and its Contractor Bus Companies and Recommendations for Additions to Existing Governance Requirements FOR the purpose of inviting representatives from the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), the Maryland Disability Law Center, parents, guardians and families of special needs students, and the general public to discuss federal, State, and local laws and policies in place to ensure the safety of special needs children transported by the BCPS and its contractors and to recommend possible additions to such laws and policies.
• Sponsors: Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Edward Reisinger, William "Pete" Welch, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Bus, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/24/2011	0	Education Committee	Recommended Favorably
1/24/2011	0	City Council	Adopted
1/13/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/13/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/10/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
1/10/2011	0	City Council	Assigned
1/10/2011	0	Education Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Branch and Clarke

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Laws and Policies Governing the Baltimore City Public Schools in Providing the Safe Transport of Special Needs Students by the School System and its Contractor Bus Companies and Recommendations for Additions to Existing Governance Requirements

FOR the purpose of inviting representatives from the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), the Maryland Disability Law Center, parents, guardians and families of special needs students, and the general public to discuss federal, State, and local laws and policies in place to ensure the safety of special needs children transported by the BCPS and its contractors and to recommend possible additions to such laws and policies.
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In December 2010, 6-year-old special needs student Jeremy Jennings, Jr. met his tragic death by abruptly exiting the moving yellow school bus transporting him home from Villa Maria at St.Vincent’s, a Catholic special education school in Timonium, Maryland.

The Baltimore City Public Schools, Office of Pupil Transportation, directly and through contract, transports just over 5,000 students a day who are eligible for curb-to-curb transportation services, of which 60% have transportation recommended in their Individualized Education Plans (IEP’s), the mandated ...