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Article: Orienting new board members quickly. (Board Relations).(Brief Article)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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On a sunny spring morning a year ago, a newly elected school board member in Pearland, Texas, walked to a bus stop near his home and waited on the street corner with students riding bus No. 23.
The school district's supervisor for transportation was already aboard the bus to ensure that the trip went smoothly. After the bus completed its pickups and school stops, the supervisor and new board member toured the transportation facility while buses were being checked in, refueled and parked. Then the board member, accompanied by a bus driver trainer, sat behind the wheel of a school bus parked in an isolated spot at the depot to experience first-hand what it takes to ...