April 16, 2020
As many districts transition to distance learning for the remainder of the 2019–2020 school year, digital equity for students has become more imperative than ever. For students without Internet at hom...
Read More →November 20, 2019
Even a 39-minute bus ride – the average bus ride time according to a recent Kajeet survey – requires more than a physical bus, the driver, and students. Today’s school bus fleets have expanded to incl...
Read More →October 22, 2019
This blog was originally written on October 16, 2017. Did you know the third full week of October is National School Bus Safety Week? The National Association for Public Transportation (NAPT) brings t...
Read More →September 9, 2019
Did you know that September is officially designated National School Bus Safety Month from a unanimous U.S. Senate vote? School Transportation News (STN) reports, “[The bill] encourages broadcast and ...
Read More →June 5, 2019
On average, school bus technicians are responsible for maintaining 21 school buses, including the maintenance, repairs, and inspection of each part of the school bus, according to the School Bus Fleet...
Read More →May 7, 2019
More than 25 million students take the school bus every day, according to the American School Bus Council. It is the job of schools and transportation departments to ensure all of those students arriv...
Read More →December 10, 2018
There’s good news for rural school districts. According to the education nonprofit organization EducationSuperHighway, 96 percent of public schools in the U.S. (an estimated 44 million students) have ...
Read More →December 6, 2018
The number one challenge facing K-12 IT leadership for planning and implementing technology enabled environments is budget constraints and a lack of resources, reports the Consortium of School Network...
Read More →September 19, 2018
It was recently announced that the state of Arizona is using $38 million of the $57 million they received from the Volkswagen (VW) settlement to repower or replace old school buses. School Bus Fleet r...
Read More →September 18, 2018
Kajeet is proud to announce the winners of the second annual Homework Gap Grant. Each applicant offered an inspiring story about how Kajeet can help their students succeed with filtered and managed mo...
Read More →August 27, 2018
The school bus is changing, welcoming new technologies that bring buses into the 21st century. But which technologies are education transportation professionals focusing on first? With so much technol...
Read More →June 26, 2018
Something happens on your school bus – a fight between students, or maybe a traffic accident involving a passing automobile. Parents, administrators, and community officials investigate the situation....
Read More →May 8, 2018
You may have heard of the growing popularity of makerspaces in schools, but have you ever thought about a makerbus? Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia decided to take makerspace on the road to...
Read More →April 26, 2018
When you picture a school bus the first thing that probably comes to mind most likely is a big yellow bus driving around with noisy students in the back. Remember the kids who sat in the back of the b...
Read More →April 2, 2018
Kajeet is proud to announce its work with Google to provide filtered WiFi access on school buses for Google’s Rolling Study Halls program. This Google initiative is designed to transform the school bu...
Read More →February 20, 2018
Kajeet is proud to announce the newest feature to our SmartBus™ solution, Global Positioning System, or GPS for short. Transportation directors and their teams now have the capability to locate their ...
Read More →January 8, 2018
Riding the school bus is the start, or completion, of a school day. And now, with today’s digital tools, it is easy to extend the classroom to the bus with filtered Internet. But that might sound daun...
Read More →September 28, 2017
Eight million (or 7.9 million to be more exact). That is the number of U.S. high school students who participate in sports at their school, a number that has increased in the past 27 years, according ...
Read More →September 15, 2017
Newington Public Schools (NPS) in Connecticut provides technology to all of their students, but the surrounding areas are not as fortunate. Students in neighboring school districts lack access to the ...
Read More →August 31, 2017
The Kajeet team was wowed by the staggering number of submissions we received that portray a very visible Homework Gap occurring across the country. With so many compelling stories, we had a difficult...
Read More →June 22, 2017
The average K-12 student spends 40 minutes per day riding the school bus. With 180 school days in an academic year, that means on average a student spends 120 hours per year on the bus. To put that in...
Read More →May 8, 2017
School buses have always had issues with misbehaving students. Picture it. You have 50 or 60 students from various grade levels in a confined area, before or after school, with little adult supervisio...
Read More →October 4, 2016
Imagine, it’s late afternoon. You’re a school bus driver trying to navigate your vehicle along rural roads in a downpour. Behind you, students are yelling and climbing. There’s even a couple of kids w...
Read More →September 26, 2016
More than just Internet. Four simple words that, for us here at Kajeet, sum up our mission and our goals. These words are also a brand promise from us to you: that with our safe, mobile broadband acce...
Read More →August 24, 2015
By Charles Askew, Kajeet Senior Director, Eastern Region As a former district and school administrator, I recognize the beginning of school as always being stressful--from getting the building(s) read...
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