Board-Trained Special Education Transportation Department Employees. Special education in-service shall be offered to drivers during district-wide staff development days. An in-service program for employees to become Board-trained special education bus drivers, school bus child care attendants, and school bus intervention aides shall be offered to all bus drivers, school bus child care attendants, and school bus intervention aides. Drivers, school bus child care attendants, and school bus intervention aides will be paid the in-service hourly rate of pay established elsewhere in this Agreement for attendance at any in-service that occurs during a time a driver, school bus child care attendant, and school bus intervention aide would not regularly be paid. Only Board-trained special education drivers, school bus child care attendants, and school bus intervention aides shall be eligible to bid on special education routes provided, however, that if there are more special education routes available than individuals who meet the criteria and who are Board-trained, then individuals who are not Board-trained may bid on special education routes in their respective classifications. The special education routes shall be awarded based upon department seniority for drivers and job classification seniority for school bus child care attendants and school bus intervention aides. The bidding shall begin with the Board-trained special education drivers by department seniority and continue through all Board- trained special education drivers. Thereafter, the bidding shall be opened to other drivers by department seniority. Any driver who bids or is assigned a special education route and is not a Board-trained special education bus driver, will be required to take some portion or all of the special education training. The bidding shall begin with the Board- trained special education school bus child care attendants and school bus intervention aides by job classification seniority and continue through all Board-trained special education school bus child care attendants and school bus intervention aides. Thereafter, the bidding shall be opened to other school bus child care attendants and school bus intervention aides by job classification seniority. Any school bus child care attendant and school bus intervention aide who bids or is assigned a special education route, and is not a Board-trained special education school bus child care attendant and school bus intervention aide, will be required to take some portion or all of the special education ...
