Transportation in School Districts
School boards of community consolidated districts, community
unit districts, consolidated districts, and consolidated
high school districts, and combined school districts if the
combined district includes any district which was previously
required to provide transportation, shall provide free transportation
for pupils residing at a distance of one and one-half miles
or more from any school to which they are assigned for attendance
maintained within the district except for those pupils for
whom the school board shall certify to the State Board of
Education that adequate transportation for the public is
available.
Each school board may provide free transportation
for any pupil residing within 1 1/2 miles from the school
attended
where conditions are such that walking constitutes a serious
hazard to the safety of the pupil due to vehicular traffic
effective on the date that the Illinois Department of Transportation
grants written approval.
The school board of any school
district that provides any school bus or conveyance for
transporting pupils to and
from the public schools shall afford transportation,
without cost,
for children who attend any school other than a public
school, who reside at least 1 1/2 miles from the school
attended,
and who reside on or along the highway constituting the
regular route of such public school bus or conveyance,
such transportation
to extend from some point on the regular route nearest
or most easily accessible to their homes to and from
the school
attended, or to or from a point on such regular route
which is nearest or most easily accessible to the school
attended
by such children.
On or before August 15, annually, the board clerk or the
secretary of the district shall certify upon forms prescribed
by the State Superintendent of Education the district's claim
for reimbursement for the school year ended on June 30 next
preceding. The district superintendent of schools shall check
all transportation claims to ascertain compliance with the
prescribed standards and upon his/her approval shall certify
not later than August 15 to the State Superintendent of Education
the district's report of claims for reimbursement.
Links
School Bus Safety Training
Form 
2007-08 Pupil
Transportation Reimbursement Claim Instructions
Pupil Transportation
Reimbursement (Part 120) Rules
Highlights of
Changes to Pupil Transportation Reimbursement (Part 120) Rules
Electronic
Pupil Transportation Claim & Reimbursement System (PTCRS)
- (Requires IWAS Sign-up)
School
Code Transportation Citations
District Safety
Hazard Application and Instructions
PTCRS - Document
Author User Guide
PTCRS - District
Superintendent User Guide
* Includes Chicago Public Schools Block Grant Funding.
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