Education

Fayette school buses getting tracking systems

Herald-Leader Staff Report
Mary Jones, who has been a bus monitor for 12 years, cleaned one of the back windows of her bus Tuesday at Fayette County Public Schools' bus garage on Liberty Road. The 2011-12 school year starts Thursday for students; teachers returned to work on Tuesday.
Mary Jones, who has been a bus monitor for 12 years, cleaned one of the back windows of her bus Tuesday at Fayette County Public Schools' bus garage on Liberty Road. The 2011-12 school year starts Thursday for students; teachers returned to work on Tuesday.

Fayette County's public schools open Thursday, and this year the district will use GPS and a radio frequency identification system to keep track of the locations of buses and elementary students.

The system will make it possible to quickly determine whether a bus is on schedule and will pinpoint where a student got on or off the bus. The systems will be in full operation by the end of October. For information on your child's bus route, go to FCPS.net/bus or call (859) 381-3855.

Coming Thursday

For information about the opening of Fayette County's public schools, read Thursday's Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com

This story was originally published August 10, 2011 at 6:26 AM with the headline "Fayette school buses getting tracking systems."

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