Graphic 6: Transportation Service Contracting
Graphic 7: Districts With New Transportation Services Contracts
Carsonville-Port Sanilac Schools |
Grant Public Schools |
Jackson Public Schools |
Beecher Community School District |
Flat Rock Community Schools |
Romulus Community Schools |
Battle Creek School District |
Lawrence Public Schools |
Dundee Community School |
Grand Blanc Community Schools |
East China School District |
Ravenna Public Schools |
Lansing School District |
Reed City Area Public Schools |
Cadillac Area Public Schools |
Bloomingdale Public Schools |
Caseville Public Schools |
Blissfield Community Schools |
Camden-Frontier Schools |
Grant Township School District #2 |
Comstock Public Schools |
Muskegon Public Schools |
Hamtramck School District |
Algonac Community Schools |
Transportation service contracting continues to expand in Michigan. It’s grown from just 21 districts in 2005 to 131 districts in 2014.
The 24 percent of districts that contract out is actually slightly higher than it would appear. This is because there are a handful of districts that do not provide regular school bus services. Largely, these districts are island school districts like Mackinac Island, Bois Blanc Pines and Beaver Island and a number of the remaining one-room school house districts.
Grant Township School District #2 is a small district on the Keweenaw Peninsula that does not provide its own transportation. However, the Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw District provides transportation for them and that district contracts out its transportation services.
Some of the growth is due to the use of employee-leasing agencies. Bloomingdale, Camden-Frontier, Carsonville-Port Sanilac, Caseville, Dundee, Flat Rock, Beecher and Lawrence began using employee leasing agencies for some portion of their transportation services.