{"id":13356,"date":"2025-10-21T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13356\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:47:07","slug":"students-with-hardships-special-needs-getting-to-school-by-alternative-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13356\/","title":{"rendered":"Students with hardships, special needs getting to school by alternative approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9EA86E5A67F2AE5AACD8BD390B78D764.jpg\" alt=\"Houston-area students getting alternative ride to school\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Every day, a student in the Houston area is forced to move from their school district.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston-area students with hardships, special needs get to school by alternative approach <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Some hardship their family endured, they had to leave our district boundaries, and they wanted to stay with their classmates and teachers and graduate in Galena Park ISD,&#8221; said the District&#8217;s Transportation Director Kenneth Bush. &#8220;We use EverDriven for that purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We specialize in transporting students with unique needs, those experiencing disabilities, housing instability,&#8221; said Alex Muirbrook with EverDriven.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EverDriven describes itself as a modernized transportation solution in 36 states serving some 800 districts.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It works with most school districts in the greater Houston area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The same driver picks up the students every day in the same vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EverDriven also provides rides to and from extracurricular activities for students with hardships or special needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with EverDriven about what they&#8217;re doing for students with hardships and\/or special needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Every day, a student in the Houston area is forced to move from their school district.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-13356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}