Under the amendment, any automated stop-arm enforcement system would have to verify that the school bus driver complied with existing state requirements governing when a bus activates its warning lights and stop arm.
Renato M. Lajara, as assistant superintendent for Network 8 in Philadelphia School District oversees 15 schools and more than 8,000 students, will take over for Bethlehem Superintendent Jack P. Silva, who will retire June 30.
The Freddy Awards is now in its 24th year. The ceremony will take place on May 21 at State Theatre.
A school district email said that at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, "during an administrative search of a student's belongings, school officials discovered a loaded firearm inside a student's school bag."
"The entire regiment deserves some sort of reconsideration, whether it’s by BusPatrol or by legislative change,” PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.