Legal Developments

The field of pupil transportation is often the subject of litigation. Listed here are some of the more important cases and rulings from state and federal courts in recent years, including several analysis of transportation-related cases by school attorney Peggy Burns.

Peggy Burns is in-house counsel with Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado . A former high school English and forensics teacher, and licensed attorney for twenty-four years, Burns has devoted the past seventeen years specifically to legal issues affecting public education. For the last ten years, Burns has focused significantly on legal issues related to both special education and school transportation. She has trained, and served as a consultant to, educators and pupil transportation personnel in school districts in a number of states, and has presented at many state, regional, and national conferences. Burns has served on the National Board of Advisors of the National Conference and Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities for the past six years, and is a Tenured Faculty Member. She is also a contributing editor for School Transportation News. She is a member of the Special Education Committee of the National Association for Pupil Transportation, and President of the Colorado Council of School Attorneys. She is also the founder of Education Compliance Group Inc., an organization committed to addressing legal compliance issues in education.

Articles are listed by the month and year. If they appeared in School Transportation News they are listed in the left hand column by month. Articles or cases that did not appear in publication in the magazine are displayed without an STN Issue month.