{"id":990227,"date":"2026-08-09T02:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/990227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:58:27","slug":"houston-isd-launches-smarttag-to-boost-bus-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/990227\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD launches SMARTtag to boost bus safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Houston ISD is launching a new tool this school year to help parents stay connected with students who ride the bus. It\u2019s called SMARTtag. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HISD says all students who are registered to use any of the district\u2019s transportation services will get a special SMARTtag badge. They will scan it every time they get on or off the bus. <\/p>\n<p>Students will use SMARTtags to mark when they board and exit the school bus. (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Parents can use the corresponding app to confirm their student arrived on the bus and to school safely. Dr. Dontarrious Rowls is the Deputy Chief of Transportation and Fleet Management for HISD. He says this app gives parents peace of mind, and so much more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cIn the past, first day of school new process, new systems, new driver, new bus numbers. So sometimes our students get confused,\u201d said Rowls. \u201cIt does not allow the student to get on the wrong bus.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Rowls says starting on the first day of school, drivers will manually input when a student boards or departs the bus. In about two weeks, official SMARTtag badges will be handed out to bus riders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The district says parents have been notified about this new tool. But if you need more information, follow this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonisd.org\/families-students\/transportation\/hisd-smart-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.houstonisd.org\/families-students\/transportation\/hisd-smart-tag\">HISD SMARTtag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Start Here, Houston<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Houston ISD is launching a new tool this school year to help parents stay connected with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":990228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[13915,259922,6263,4345,397084,358,3187],"class_list":["post-990227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-back-to-school","tag-bus-safety","tag-hisd","tag-houston","tag-smart-tags","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117063313392461832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990227","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=990227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}