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KDE's Roy Prince: Adair Student Transportation 2nd to none Kentucky Department of Education Offical Roy Prince uses Student Transportation Department at Adair County School District as a model for other districts around the state, praises Director David Jones for operating a safe and efficient transportation, and saves highest accolades for student loading at Adair County Elementary School, Robbie Harmon, principal, calling it a model for other schools in the Commonwealth By Ed Waggener ". . . Adair County Schools (student transportation) is second to none statewide in statutory and regulatory compliance and operating a safe and efficient transportation department," according to Roy Prince, Kentucky Department of Transportation, Kentucky Department of Education, who made the statement in a letter sent to Adair County Superintendent Alan W. Reed, dated October 9, 2012 and which Mr. Reed shared with school board members, and which was forwarded to CM by Board Member Marsha Walker, Division 2. The letter had special praise for Adair County Schools Director of Student Transportation David Jones and Superintendent Reed, and singled out the student loading procedure at Adair County Elementary School, and Robbie Harmon, principal. "The single most impressive finding that I personally had, was the student loading at Adair County Elementary School. I have been in my position for over twenty two years with over thirty two years of transportation experience," Mr. Prince said in the letter, and, he continued, " I have audited school districts hundreds of times and watched student loading at schools well over a thousand times. I have never seen safer, more effective student loading than at this school. It was evident that student loading was the goal of all staff at the school." Observation following audit, training sessions Mr. Prince observations followed an audit of the Adair County Transportation Department. "Recently, on September 18, 2012 I, and my staff, visited Adair County Schools to perform a transportation audit. The purpose of this audit was staff training on performance requirements when performing transportation audits on school districts. I was discussing this training with Mr. Jones and he volunteered Adair County Schools. In truth, I was hoping that he would volunteer since I did not want to audit a transportation department with many issues and Adair County Schools is second to none statewide in statutory and regulatory compliance and operating a safe and efficient transportation department." Student loading at ACES will be used as a model for other schools in the state "Mr. Jones informed me before the audit that he thought the loading and unloading process at Adair County Elementary School was efficient, however some other Adair County Schools did not measure up to his expectations in the area of student loading and unloading. This is exactly what the team discovered. The student loading at Adair County Elementary School was not only efficient, but exemplary. It will be used as a model in the future by Pupil Transportation Services, Kentucky Department of Education, for other school districts. This is not to imply that the other Adair County schools are not providing student safety. It is difficult to measure up to what I consider the best in the entire commonwealth. Feels call to safety is being heard in Adair County Mr. Prince concluded his letter with this comment, "Mr. Reed, the most trying aspect of my job is investigating the injury or death of a student in a pupil transportation related incident. When I see something as safe as I witnessed in your county it makes me feel as though our efforts are not falling on deaf ears. "I commend you, Mr. Jones and Mr. Harmon and his staff on putting forth the efforts to keep our students safer. Personally, I thank you, and Pupil Transportation Services thanks and congratulates you. You should be proud of your transportation department." This story was posted on 2012-10-15 06:01:19
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