A student actor is evacuated from a school bus by first responders during a mock casualty exercise produced for Lincoln County Schools in West Virginia.


Liberty Public Schools’ districtwide student population


is more than 12,000 students with an enrolled ridership of around 7,500 with 93 vehicles providing transporta- tion on 68 routes. The district served as a beta tester for a new platform


from Transportant, the vendor the district uses for live video, student accountability and GPS tracking. Alan Fairless, Transportant co-founder and CTO, noted the platform encompasses cameras that are live streaming over cellular. The technology enables district


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officials to talk into the bus to address student discipline challenges or support the bus driver. “We can look not only at real time but we can also look


at time that has already occurred,” said Jones. “If we need to roll back for disciplinary issues, we can look back at the time of that video feed. There is a distress button on there that will send a signal back to that system to let our dispatch know. “If they have an unruly parent, we are able to watch it as it’s occurring, and at the same time initiate our response


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