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The transportation program in Madison County and the problems which stem from it are unique for the state of Florida. Madison County is one of the few counties in the state which handle school transportation on a complete contractual basis. At present in Florida, Duval and Madison Counties operate school buses on a complete contractual basis. Liberty County owns one bus and operates seven others on a contractual basis. In Union County all the buses are jointly owned. / Typescript. / "June, 1951." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-55).

"From pioneer days until shortly after the close of the war between the States, transportation facilities were limited. The child who lived more than a walking distance from school, journeyed to and from school by whatever means his family could provide. Usually this meant a long and tedious ride in a rough wagon which discouraged regular attendance. In many instances the child rode a horse or rowed a boat. Pupil transportation during this era was entirely on a private basis"--Introduction. / "May, 1951." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-52).

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The purpose of the study was to determine if special education children classified as emotionally handicapped riding school buses for longer time periods exhibit more behavior disorder characteristics than children classified as emotionally handicapped exhibit riding buses for shorter time periods. The study was restricted to one midwestern metropolitan school district's seventy-five elementary and middle school children classified as emotionally handicapped under Indiana Rule S-1 definition.Data was collected from school bus drivers, school aides, and school administrators. The data was recorded and analyzed for thirteen separate behavioral characteristics.Findings1. A total of 79 percent of the disobedient and disruptive behavior on school buses occurred when emotionally handicapped students were scheduled to ride buses for longer than thirty-one minutes.2. Boys had 85 percent of the total recorded problem behaviors on school buses.3. Girls were responsible for 15 percent of the total problem behavior reports on school buses.4. Eighty-one percent of all problem behaviors on school buses for emotionally handicapped boys and girls occurred for students scheduled to ride school buses longer than thirty-one minutes.Conclusions1. The length of time an emotionally handicapped student was transported needed to be shortened to less than thirty minutes travel time.2. Classroom placement or location needed to be centralized to reduce the length of time for school bus trips transporting emotionally handicapped students.3. Training programs for school bus drivers in. student management, behavior modification, assertive discipline and psychology of the emotionally handicapped child has major implications for changes in student behavior.

For students and their families that live within the regional school system of Quebec, travel to school by bus has become a "fixed" activity. Households operate within a complex system of time, distance and accessibility constraints in adapting to the impact of this fixed bus schedule. This study focuses on the impact of this daily bus ride on the perceptions and behaviours of these households. The Household Activity-Travel Simulator (HATS) technique, developed at Oxford University, was adapted to a survey of 64 households in the Eastern Townships School Board of Quebec. Households were selected according to time-distance from the two English secondary schools in the region. The interview/survey solicited student and family responses and behaviours with respect to the daily bus trip. The study tests six related hypotheses on the effects of such large time units devoted to riding a bus. The hypotheses search for relationships between travel time and the daily activity schedules of students and their families. Through a number of quantitative and qualitative measures, the study concludes that the bus trip has an effect on students and, to a lesser degree, on their families.

Transport for learners has been problematised by some South African scholars as being a significant factor in access to education. This study takes the view of access further by focusing on South African public transport policy provisions for learners. The key research questions are: 1. What are the political discourses in public transport policies that are relevant to school transport and learners? 2. To what extent are these public transport policies coherent in their treatment of and provision for learners? Through using a blend of Scheurich’s Policy Archaeology and Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis approaches for an analysis of selected excerpts from relevant policy texts issued in the period 1994-2009, I find that school learners are assigned marginalised positions and neo-liberal trends temper school learner interests. These findings about South Africa’s transport policies and how they serve the interests of learners and position them in the social hierarchy, point to discourses in public transport policy that infringe the rights of school learners to have their best interests served in all matters related to their wellbeing as indicated in Section 28 of the Constitution. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

The Seminole County Georgia Board of Education has made a special effort to provide adequate educational opportunities for all the children of the county. An important phase of this effort has been the provision of building facilities to house the children. Three years ago a new consolidated county-wide high school building was completed, along with a new elementary building in Donalsonville, and needed improvements in all the other elementary schools. / Typescript. / "August, 1952." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science."

This study is a comparative study of the transportation set-ups in the schools of District 5, Texas and attempted to determine the relationships various factors to pupil transportation cost. In light of the findings of the study, the writer made recommendations that would serve District 5 (i.e. Cooke, Grayson, Wise, Denton, and Collin counties).