The NAPT Special Needs Transportation Training Program continues to grow as the association announced that two more professional recently obtained their endorsement.

Carol A.B. Bowes, a certified specialist of pupil transportation who works in the Person County Schools in Roxboro, N.C., became the sixth person nationwide and Josielyn Rainey, an employee of Prince William County Public Schools in Manassas, Va., the seventh to complete the training program. Both women did so at the Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers National Conference in Kansas City last month.

The program started last year to provide national and local educational opportunities for transportation personnel serving students with disabilities and to gain national recognition for their efforts. The first classes offered as a separate training event prior to the start of the STN EXPO in Reno, Nev.

The core curriculum consists of 24 hours of education in a variety of different settings, including a school bus roadeo and a trade show of school transportation products and services. There are also eight hours of elective instruction from the NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) Program.