Dear NOLA-PS community,
As promised, I wanted to update you on the progress we are making on school bus safety.
As you know, we issued a deadline of February 13th for schools to report their status on ensuring all their buses are fully compliant with the city’s inspection process. As of today, nine out of thirteen school organizations have reported that they are in full compliance with the inspection process. The remaining four school organizations have demonstrated significant progress towards full compliance and will be given extensions to comply with the inspection process.
As an additional accountability step, the district is verifying compliance by continuing to conduct on-site spot checks with school bus vendors. We can assure you that our schools are holding bus vendors accountable and those vendors are making steady progress to make sure their fleets meet the city’s inspection standards.
Our goal as a district is to ensure that schools are compliant with the city's transportation inspection standards and we remain committed to providing the oversight necessary to accomplish that. We have made significant progress, but we won’t be satisfied until 100 percent of the fleet is meeting standards.
In service,
Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr.
NOLA-PS Superintendent of Schools