

Why not implement them now instead of waiting until it was mandated? So we decided to implement it early. “We didn’t want to wait until it was mandatory,” said said UCPS Director of Transportation Richard Kingsberry. UCPS Transportation Department got ahead of the game by starting this new procedure at the beginning of the 2015-16 school year. The new law requires bus drivers to use hand signals to tell students when to cross the street. The hand signals, required by a new state law that went into affect in early January, are just one of the tools that bus drivers use to keep students safe.

8 – 12), bus drivers are being recognized across the school district for their role in getting students safely to and from school.

Sturdivant is one of more than 300 Union County Public School bus drivers who are using hand signals as an additional communication tool to increase safety protocols for young bus riders.
