Continuous
| Update school bus driver CDL and medical exam certificate information in KDE's School Bus Driver Database and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's CDL Document Portal. Update school bus driver inactive/termination date in KDE's School Bus Driver Database any time a school bus driver is no employed by your district (or is on medical leave). |
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School Year
| School Bus Safety Training – throughout the school year for P-12. |
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Bus Evacuation Schedule
| Bus Evacuation #1 – Must be completed during the first full week after start of school.
Bus Evacuation #2 – Must be completed before the end of first semester. Bus Evacuation #3 – Must be completed during the first full week after Winter Break. Bus Evacuation #4 – Must be completed during the second semester before the end of school. |
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Director of Transportation
| KDE hosts training classes for incoming Directors of Transportation during Spring Break and one week during Summer Break. |
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School Bus Driver Training Instructor
| School Bus Driver Training Instructor Workshops are held during Spring Break and Summer Break. School Bus Driver Training Instructor 6-hour recertification training classes are held during Summer Break. |
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School Bus Inspector
| School Bus Inspector 4-hour recertification training classes are held during Summer Break. |
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School Bus Driver
| Driver Review #1 must be completed within 5 days of completion of core curriculum instruction.
Driver Review #2 must be completed approximately 20-30 days after Driver Review #1. Driver Review #3 must be completed within 3-6 months after Driver Review #2.
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August
| August 1st – School Bus Incident Reports due for prior fiscal year.
Bus Evacuation #1 – Must be completed during the first full week after start of school. |
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September
| September 1st – Download, update and email school district school bus inventory spreadsheet to KDE. |
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October | October 1st – Inform KISTA if buses are to be financed.
October 1st – School Bus Ordering System is available.
October 14th – School Bus inventory due for processing. |
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November | November 1st – Transportation Growth Factor Adjustment Form due.
November 1st – Last day to inform KISTA for bus financing.
November 15th – Late bus orders due for May delivery. NOTE: No guarantee
of May delivery after this date.
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December
| Bus Evacuation #2 – Must be completed before the end of first semester. December 30th – Verify school bus inventory information In Bus Inventory Application. Make changes as required in system.
December 31st - Bus Inventory changes lock out to calculate SEEK funding for bus inventory.
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January | January 1 - Seek Funding Decpreciation Report generates. Bus Evacuation #3 – Must be completed during the first full week after Winter Break. |
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March/April | First School Bus Driver Training Instructor Workshop is held during Spring
Break. |
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May
| May 31st – Kentucky School for the Deaf & Blind Daily
Form due.
May 31st – Kentucky School for the Deaf & Blind Resident Form
due. |
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Summer
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All school bus driver's must complete an 8-hour recertification update training prior to the first week of school.
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June
| June 30th – Transportation End of Year Form Due The following Pupil Transportation conferences are held typically in the last two weeks of June:
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July
| July 8th – Certification of Transportation Mileage Due
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