ON DEMAND WEBINAR
Duration: 1 hour​

From stubborn chronic absenteeism and budget-shaping enrollment declines to mounting obligations to students who need the most reliable support, district leaders are managing some of the most consequential pressures in a generation. But a new report suggests that transportation teams are sitting on information that could directly connect to whether students show up, whether families choose your schools, and whether your most vulnerable students, such as those experiencing homelessness or with IEPs, are getting the access the law requires. In many districts, this information exists within a department that leaders rarely view as a source of strategic insight. 

In this webinar, superintendents, student services professionals, McKinney-Vento liaisons, and district leaders learn the key takeaways from the report, including what’s in the data, why it matters for decisions that happen far outside the transportation department, and what it looks like when districts start treating it as a strategic asset rather than an operational record. Key takeaways include:

• Absences Districts Are Missing: Why more than half of families surveyed experienced a transportation-related absence last year — and why most districts’ attendance systems aren’t catching it
• The School Choice Connection: What parents across the country told us about how transportation availability influences school choice, and what it means for districts trying to reverse enrollment decline
• The McKinney-Vento Disconnect: How the gap between McKinney-Vento’s “without delay” standard and most districts’ actual response time is costing vulnerable students days of school
• What Administrators Aren’t Tracking: Why 75% of district administrators say they believe transportation affects attendance, but only 25% are formally tracking the relationship — and the simple first step to close that gap
• Boosting Critical Collaboration: How to bring transportation data into the conversations about absenteeism, enrollment, and student equity that are already happening at your leadership table

SPEAKERS

Angelo Grau
President of the North Texas Association for Pupil Transportation & Transportation Supervisor, Mesquite Independent School District (TX)

Dustin Kress
General Manager, RoutWise AI™
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