Transportation

Address or Contact Information Changes
In order to ensure that all students are traveling on correct transportation, it is crucial that the transportation office have the current families’ address and contact information and for emergencies. For day students, it may take mini-bus companies up to 5 to 10 working days to change their schedules.

Permission to Visit on Weekends
Students who want to visit a friend need to fill out the weekend guest form and weekend host form and give the forms to their cottage counselors one week prior to the visit. This ensures that our staff know at which stop the students are to get off the bus, and it communicates families' written permission that the child can be picked up by the other student’s families. If families want to come to the school on Friday to pick up their child and their child’s guest, this should be indicated on the signed guest/host forms. Students being picked up at school must be signed out at school, the cottage, or the transportation office. Students using CSD transportation are allowed one visitor per weekend.

To qualify for visit privileges, students must have shown appropriate behavior in the cottage, at school and on buses. No visitation is allowed during the first weekend of the school year and during the summer session.

Day students generally may not have friends ride on their school district mini-buses due to insurance liability. In some cases, some students may not allowed to have visitors due to the limited amount of room in the bus.

The visiting student will be charged a $5.00 visit fee if they use our transportation. Students using public transportation will pay their own fare.

Adult students, 18 years old or older, who host other students are required to have their families' signature on the host form so that the host family will know guests are coming to their houses.

Visit forms need to be turned in to the transportation department by the Monday prior to the visit.

Only in extreme circumstances will phone calls or emails be accepted in lieu of a signed form.

Transportation of Day Students
The transportation of day students at the school is primarily the responsibility of the child’s local school district (LEA), including any cost incurred in the transportation of students to and from the school; this is true whether the child rides a mini-bus, taxi or uses public transportation. The school does not dispatch mini-buses or plan their schedules. CSD also does not distribute bus or BART tickets to day students. The school encourages families to keep their child’s mini-bus/taxi driver ’s phone number handy at all times.

Contact Barbara White, Director of Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) at 510-344-6095 or send email to [email protected] for any questions regarding contacting your LEA.

Please note: Families of students who are under three years of age must provide transportation to and from the school themselves. If the child is in the infant program or under age three in the preschool program, transportation is the responsibility of the families or the school district.

After-School Activities- Day Students
In some departments, day students may join after-school activities that will cause them to miss their bus ride home. Families will need to arrange a pick up after the activity.