UPDATE August 19, 2024
Bus route information for the 2024/2025 school year has been sent via email today, August 19, 2024 . Please check your email and contact Transportation at jalderman@berlincentralschool.
Please find a letter regarding transportation updates for the 2024/2025 school year from Berlin CSD Transportation Supervisor Jeaneatte Alderman below.
Please note this letter was emailed home to all families today August 6, 2024.
If you did not receive the email please reach out to the main office of your student’s building to update your contact information.
For questions please reach out to Mrs. Jeaneatte Alderman jalderman@berlincentral.org
August 6, 2024
Dear Berlin Parents/Guardian,
The Berlin Central School District will be making adjustments to the bus routes for the 2024/2025 school year. In order to provide all students with timely transportation to and from school with a limited number of bus drivers, we will be adjusting some pick up and drop off locations within the district enabling greater efficiency to address the transportation needs of our school community.
With efficiency and safety as our top priority, some students will be required to meet the bus at the end of their road, or in a designated safe location. We will be implementing corner stops in towns as well. Keeping in mind the guidelines set forth by New York State Education Department as follows: https://www.p12.nysed.gov/schoolbus/education_law/Education_Law_3635.html
For those community members who are directly impacted by the adjustments, the Transportation Department will reach out directly to those whose drop off and or pick up locations will be adjusted moving into the 2024/2025 school year.
Stopping short of eliminating late bus runs, and acknowledging the value of providing late runs to continue student engagement and participation in afterschool programs, the district’s transportation department is working diligently to streamline late run drop off points. This is an adjustment for our district however, it is common practice elsewhere and a way to meet our budgetary needs and staffing limitations while continuing to provide our families access to after school transportation to the extent possible.
There will be safe designated drop off points in each town where a parent or guardian will meet the bus to pick up their student. Please note a student will not be left at a late bus drop off location unless there is prior parent/guardian written approval. In the event a parent/guardian is not at the drop off location within the time frame the student will remain on the bus and a parent will be contacted.
We at Berlin Central School District understand that change can be difficult and it will require all of us as a community to work together to ensure that our kids continue to have daily bus runs to and from school, transportation for after school activities and our sports programs.
In the coming weeks we will be sending out specific pick up and drop off locations and times for all students and also late bus drop off points for middle and high school students.
Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding with this matter. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Transportation Supervisor Mrs. Jeaneatte Alderman at jalderman@berlincentral.org.
Sincerely,
Jeaneatte Alderman
Transportation Supervisor
jalderman@berlincentral.org