{"id":161578,"date":"2025-08-20T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161578\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:56:09","slug":"saisd-transportation-department-adapts-to-student-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161578\/","title":{"rendered":"SAISD Transportation Department adapts to student needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Lucy Kerley remembers having to take a VIA Metropolitan Transit bus to campus back when she attended San Antonio Independent School District\u2019s Highlands High School .\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in our days, the yellow buses were only used for field trips, so we had VIA, and we used VIA cards,\u201d Kerley said. \u201cSo I took two buses to get to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said a lot has changed at SAISD since those days. She would know. Kerley spent the last three decades working at transportation departments in multiple school districts and is now back at the district she once attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been giving myself and my professionalism to other students in Central Texas. Why not come home, give the same dedication and professionalism to our students here?\u201d Kerley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She became SAISD\u2019s director of transportation during a critical time.\u00a0The department was still adjusting to the 15 school closures approved by district leaders in November 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it shared a little burden for a lot of families,\u201d Kerley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The shuttered schools became bus stops for students.\u00a0Spectrum News 1 documented the changes last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In neighborhoods where many of the families rely on the buses, the new bus stops caused confusion and frustration, leaving some students guessing which bus was there because the stop was home to four schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of security and safety purposes, we removed the bus stops from there (closed schools)\u00a0and we actually placed those bus stops in the neighborhoods,\u201d Kerley said. \u201cSo parents have the safety of knowing where their students are.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The district now also takes the weather more into consideration.<\/p>\n

Kerley says they’re doing more to protect elderly guardians and younger students from South Texas temperatures.\u00a0She says transportation is working alongside the enrollment department to create a bus rider roster list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s going to keep kids safe, so they are not getting on the wrong buses or they are not lost. The drivers know who they are, the principals and teachers know what buses they ride,\u201d Kerley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kerley says she\u2019s adjusting to the needs of the families, whose shoes she was once in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about making sure that each ride these students have, are safe. They are our priority, but yet it will impact their success of their education,\u201d Kerley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Lucy Kerley remembers having to take a VIA Metropolitan Transit bus to campus back when…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,93585,16549,13915,5281,407,93584,50,7202,7203,358,41035,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-161578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-back-to-school","10":"tag-app-education","11":"tag-back-to-school","12":"tag-ctv","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-jose-arredondo","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115062150739912829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}