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Model School Crossing Guard Municipal Policy Released
Every school day school crossing guards are hard at work making sure children get to and from school safely. While we depend on crossing guards to ensure the safety of our children, according to the Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund of New Jersey, the position of school crossing guard [...]
Facing Cuts to School Busing? Strategies for dealing with the issues
Due to budget cuts, school districts often must reduce or eliminate school busing for students. This is a very difficult decision to make and because it involves the safety of children, emotions can run high when it is discussed. There are, however, several steps schools can and should take before, [...]
Montclair Safe Routes to School
The Township of Montclair applied for and received funding through NJDOT for a district-wide Safe Routes to School program to develop school action plans to encourage safe walking and biking to school for 10 Montclair Schools. A consultant team lead by RBA Group and assisted by Meadowlink and Arterial was [...]
Teaching Children Personal Safety: Tips and Strategies
Many parents worry about the safety of their children, whether on the way to or from school, in the park, or anywhere else where constant adult supervision is lacking. One of the biggest concerns for parents is teaching their children how to be properly wary of strangers when out in [...]
Money Well Spent: a Mini-Grant, a Community and a Well Established SRTS Program
On November 21, 2011, the National Center for Safe Routes to School (SRTS) announced that Tatem Elementary of Haddonfield, New Jersey was a 2012 SRTS Mini-Grant Award recipient. Out of 200 applicants, Tatem Elementary was 1 of 26 chosen to receive the grant due to their outstanding achievements in establishing [...]
New Jersey Safe Routes to School (NJ SRTS) announces its new Recognition Program!
Municipalities and schools (public, private or charter) will be recognized for First Step, Bronze, Silver or Gold Safe Routes to School levels. Schools and municipalities can either be nominated by their Safe Routes Regional Coordinator or can self-nominate for recognition as a result of involvement and commitment to Safe Routes [...]