The state’s technical high school system will get new buses– ones that are equipped with seat belts. <\/p>\n
The State Bond Commission approved $2 million Tuesday that will be used to purchase 40 new school buses for the system. <\/p>\n
Last month, The Courant reported that nearly 60 percent of the system’s buses had serious safety violations last year. The governor announced that she would bond for new buses on the same day the article was published. <\/p>\n
At a February forum, Sen. Thomas Gaffey, co-chairman of the education committee, said that several parents of technical school students told him that students were not being bused to job sites and athletic events because the system’s buses were inoperable. <\/p>\n
The last time the technical school system received money to update its fleet was August 2006, when the state Department of Education bought 23 buses. Since then, education officials have tried to get $2.7 million each year to buy and repair buses, but have not been able to do so.<\/p>\n
The governor is requiring that the buses have seat belts because of the death of 16-year-old Vikas Parikh, of Rocky Hill, who died as a result of a January bus crash on I-84. <\/p>\n
In addition to impacting the technical school bus request, Parikh’s death also prompted a proposal that would require all new school buses purchased in 2012 or after to have seat belts. That bill was passed by the transportation committee Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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