{"id":200182,"date":"2026-04-17T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:36:13","slug":"nyc-parents-could-track-school-bus-service-with-dashboard-brooklyn-councilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200182\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC parents could track school bus service with \u2018dashboard\u2019: Brooklyn councilman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A City Council member is introducing legislation on Thursday that would create a public school bus performance dashboard to push transportation companies to answer for poor service.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s sponsor, Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn), said the idea for the dashboard came in response to complaints of school bus delays and no-shows<\/a>, with little means of holding vendors accountable for disruptions to children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear from parents all the time who are struggling with persistently, chronically late school buses,\u201d Restler said. \u201cIt feels like there\u2019s nothing to be done about it. We collectively scream into a black hole of bureaucracy, and things don\u2019t get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really eager for us to bring about a new generation of school bus operators that safely and consistently get our kids to school on time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The bill comes as the city narrowly avoided a school bus shutdown last fall<\/a> and is looking for legislative changes in Albany that would allow officials to re-bid contracts for better service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this data, we can make a clear and compelling argument of which vendors have no business driving around our children,\u201d Restler said.<\/p>\n

\"CityCity Council member Lincoln Restler. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The dashboard, as Restler envisions it, would allow parents and the broader public to look up their school bus route or bus company to better understand how their vendor is performing. The data would also be searchable by borough, district and school, and presented with data visualizations, summaries and supporting information.<\/p>\n

Restler\u2019s tool would also let users search by type of bus route, including if they\u2019re transporting students in special education \u2014 who make up a large share of children who ride the bus.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s introduction comes as Kevin Moran, deputy chancellor of the Division of School Operations, has been teasing the school system\u2019s own bus vendor \u201cscorecard\u201d at town halls across the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing now, for the first time ever, is producing a vendor scorecard,\u201d Moran \u2014 who, before overseeing school operations, served as the chancellor\u2019s senior adviser for student transportation \u2014 said last month in Upper Manhattan<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had that before in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scorecard will consist of things like on-time, arrival, breakdowns, latenesses and vintage of the bus, the deputy chancellor said. A representative for the city\u2019s public schools did not provide more information about the tool or how it compares to the one proposed by Restler.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students deserve reliable, safe and accountable transportation. Anything less is unacceptable,\u201d said Nicole Brownstein, press secretary for the public schools. \u201cWe look forward to reviewing the legislation and we welcome the opportunity to collaborate on this important work with Council member Restler.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A City Council member is introducing legislation on Thursday that would create a public school bus performance dashboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,85,267,9,24,264,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-200182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}