2.4 School District of Philadelphia Transportation Policy 

I. RESOLVED: That the current policy for providing transportation for public, parochial and private schools is as follows:

A student must be a resident of the city of Philadelphia and…..

A. Be designated by the Office of Specialized Services as a participant in a Special Education class and whose participation requires that transportation is needed to enable the student to get to school, or

B. Live more than one mile from his/her neighborhood school and be participating in the voluntary school desegregation program of the School District of Philadelphia, or

C. Be in grades 1 through 6 and live one mile and a half or further from the neighborhood school, or

D. Be in grades 1 through 8 and whose route to school is determined to be hazardous by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, or

E. Be assigned by the District Administration to attend a school other than his/her regularly assigned school for reasons of overcrowded conditions and be in need of transportation as determined by Transportation Services, or

F. Be one whose extenuating circumstances dictates an extraordinary need for District-provided transportation as recommended by District Administration. 

G. Be in grades 7 through 12 and live one mile and a half or further from school to be eligible for Student Transpasses.  

II. Non-public schools and schools that do their own Distance Busing and are reimbursed by the School District will be awarded contracts only prior to the start of the school year.  Non-public schools which have students transported by other means must submit to the Transportation Division the completed S-149 forms sent in May by the due date on the accompanying letter.  

III.The Transportation Division of the School District in conjunction with School District administrators will determine the method of transportation, i.e., Yellow School Bus, Cab, Transpass, or Mileage Reimbursement.

IV. Non-Public Schools served by Contract Buses on multi-school routes that have early dismissals will be required to have dismissal on a common day and at a common time.  Those wishing to continue to dismiss independently will be required to provide their own transportation for that day; and be it

FURTHUR RESOLVED: that the School District will initiate efforts to engage Public and Non-Public Schools in a cooperative program to schedule school opening and closing hours that are in the interests of increased economy.