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The school transportation industry's largest and most diverse membership organization, NAPT provides the tools and information designed to advance industry professionals and leaders.
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Upcoming Events
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12Aug
The Missing Piece of Your Hiring Process: The School Bus Driver Safety and Risk Index
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
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17Aug
Why is there Litigation in School Transportation? Lessons from the Experts
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
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24Aug
Push 2 Talk
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
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18Oct
Houston Road Show
10/18/2021 to 10/20/2021 CDT
Blog
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The Future of NAPT® In-Person Events: Introducing ACTS!® The Road Show
In the last 12 months, NAPT® has launched a variety of new products and services, all created and designed to help you connect, communicate, and collaborate during a time where in-person events were not possible. Your support of these projects has helped us navigate a very difficult year. We also recognize that online events and digital publications are not the same as meeting in-person.
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We Need Your Help: CDC Survey on Teacher, School Staff and Childcare Worker Vaccination
On March 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directed states to get all teachers, school staff, early childhood educators, and early childhood staff their first COVID-19 vaccination by the end of the month. NAPT® has been asked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to share their survey to help them learn about attitudes and behaviors regarding the COVID-19 vaccination.
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Reducing COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Risks on Public Transportation Buses: An Empirical Study on Aerosol Dispersion and Control
This study is one of the first COVID-19 related bus studies to fully characterize cough aerosol dispersion and control in the highly turbulent real-world environment of driving regular bus routes on both a school bus and a transit bus. While several other bus studies have been conducted, they were limited to clinical contact tracing, simulation, or partial characterization of aerosol transmission in the passenger areas with constraint conditions.
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U.S. Department of Education Issues Transportation Considerations for School Opening
On the same day the CDC released its new school opening guidelines, the US Department of Education disseminated an updated version of their Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools, which contains more in-depth transportation considerations.