Seatbelts on Buses?

Board policy CNC(LEGAL) from 2009 requires us from this year on to buy only school busses and activity buses with seat belts – PROVIDED that TEA pays for the extra expense. TEA has to decide on the safety issue, the Texas legislature has to decide on appropriations from taxes or federal grants, the federal Transportation people have to decide whether to make grants – and all our bus buys funnel through Dallas County Schools agency anyway. The local board is hostage to higher powers on this.

There’s been interesting academic work just recently done on the issue, in Minnesota. You might google for a study completed for St. Paul by a guy named David Peterson: see what you think. Then let me hear from you.