A school district outside Chicago became the second system in Illinois to use technology to track the location of students on school buses. The Palos Heights School District 128 distributed RFID-equipped identification cards to 400 students in preschool through fifth grade. The ID cards tell officials which students are on the bus; a GPS system tells them where each bus is. From the Chicago Tribune:
It is the newest technological advance in the effort to ease parents’ nerves and keep students safe. Today’s parents, torn between wanting to give their kids more independence while also keeping them from harm, can now send them off knowing they can call the school to make sure their child arrived or to check if the child is late returning from school.
Installing the RFID system on 10 buses cost $16,000, including the ID cards. Link to full story in Chicago Tribune.
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