Parents to Improve School Transportation: VOTE YES! SCHOOL BUS BILL OF RIGHTS

OPT maximum times* (including 10-15 min. grace period)

When the bus route takes longer: 

        Call OPT Customer Service at 718-392-8855 every time; 

        get a Complaint Number & name; write it down. 

        Ask the school & other families on the route to do the same. 

        Bus driver/attendant can also file a report. 

* Join our fight to make these shorter & split up the grades! *     

Also: Contact Gov. Cuomo to sign the EPP bill for recruitment and retention of well trained, experienced drivers & attendants.

Email complaints work best if they include:

• Route number, company name

• Child´s name, OSIS number

• Child’s Busing Accommodations if any

• Dates,  times,  issues,  Complaint numbers 

• If your child has an IEP, stress the fact that busing is a related service and education is their civil right!

• City code says: in hot weather the bus should be at least 20 degrees F below the outside temperature.

      Ideas for who to copy on your most urgent Emails:

• Us! pistnyc@gmail.com

• If child has an IEP, also copy ccse@schools.nyc.gov

• If District 75, also copy D75council@schools.nyc.gov

• School Principal, Parent Coordinator, Busing Coordinator

• NY Lawyers for Public Interest betterbuses@NYLPI.org

• Your City Council member & the Education Committee Chair (Currently mtreyger@council.nyc.gov)

• For live feedback from friendly parents and union school bus workers, remove personal info and summarize issue on https://www.facebook.com/pistnyc/ 

OPT Directors  (all emails are: @schools.nyc.gov)

In case of further changes also use: PupilTransportationTeam@schools.nyc.gov

OPT Twitter is  @nycschoolbuses     

For advice on requesting IEP transportation accommodations, see https://tinyurl.com/y47h28he