New tools to catch stop arm violators could be coming
Topeka Capital-Journal
In a normal year, Newton USD 373 bus drivers observe between 100 to 150 drivers who fail to stop for a bus with stop arms deployed.
The 2020-21 school year has been anything but normal, and stats on stop arm violations are far from complete. In the 2018-19 school year, 102 drivers in Newton illegally passed stopped school buses, according to USD 373′s transportation department. That was down about 75 from the year before.
Each violation, according to district staff, is a big deal. Our students’ safety is our department’s No. 1 priority. We want to keep them safe and we can’t do that alone. We need the community’s help,” said district director of transportation Sheila Zwahlen after reviewing numbers in 2019.
The Kansas State Department of Education now recommends the state s school districts allow middle and high school students to return to five-day-a-week, in-person classes if certain health precautions are followed.
Speaking to the Kansas State Board of Education, Randy Watson, education commissioner, said that a group of health professionals including representatives from KU Wichita Pediatrics, the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians and Kansas Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics has consistently agreed that schools main goal should be to bring students back to as much in-person learning as possible.
The debate, then, has been on how to do that safely.
But after discussions held since November and recent studies on the transmission of COVID-19 in secondary schools, Watson said that group s consensus is now that middle and high school students can reopen safely if schools follow certain safety procedures.
Twitter Announces Proposed Settlement of Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to settle the shareholder derivative lawsuits pending in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the Court ) and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against the Company and certain current and former directors and officers. The proposed settlement resolves all claims asserted against Twitter and the other named defendants in the derivative lawsuits without any liability or wrongdoing attributed to them personally or the Company.
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