August may be slow here in Washington D.C., but the coming several months are a great time for you at home to highlight the changes Safe Routes to School are making in your community.
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Model Policy
More than 100 jurisdictions at the state, local, and regional levels have adopted Complete Streets policies. NPLAN has surveyed existing law, conducted extensive legal research, and consulted with legal and policy experts to create these model laws for Complete Streets.
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A Champion's Guide to Saving Lives
Each state DOT is required to develop a data-driven Strategic Highway Safety Plan for programming their Highway Safety Improvement fund. Some of this funding can be spent on bicycle and pedestrian safety for school children.
Walk and Roll to School Day was on October 8, and I participated in an amazing event with Mayor Ed Lee and members of San Francisco’s Safe Routes to School partnership. Nearly 90 schools and 14,000 children across San Francisco participated in the record-breaking event. More than 85 percent of San Francisco Unified School District elementary schools participated, growing the event by ten percent this year.
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Expanding the Use of Public School Infrastructure to Benefit Students and Communities
Using California as a “meta case,” this research report establishes an empirical understanding of the full range of joint use and how specific strategies fit into a larger picture of more efficiently and appropriately utilizing public school spaces for educational and community purposes.
By Michelle Lieberman, Molly O’Reilly and Katharine Bierce
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A Forum on the Role of State Policy in California
This report summarizes discussion and findings from the 2005 National Summit on School Design.
Late in the evening of June 9, as part of the House consideration of the transportation appropriations bill, Rep.
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This website describes the initiatives of the Rural School and Community Trust, which is a national nonprofit working toward high-quality place-based education in rural settings through school and community connections.
This guest blog post was written by our research adviser, Christina Galardi.
First, let’s start with a pop quiz to get your brain working - I’ll give the answers at the end.
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This summary document, drawn from a national dialogue among leaders in health andpublic education, with accompanying research, answers this question in the affirmative.
A new information brief, issued today by the National Center for Safe Routes to School and written by the Safe Routes Partnership, demonstrates how regional transportation planning authorities (or MPOs) can advance Safe Routes to School priorities using the relatively new Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP).
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Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students
This guide is designed to help schools respond the the special nutrition concerns of low-income students in their wellness policies, including through increasing physical activity and recreational opportunities.
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has set its consideration of the transportation bill for Thursday, October 22. This is coming in just under the wire, as the current transportation law expires at the end of October. Congress will still have to do an extension of current law to allow the House to complete its work and then come to agreement with the Senate -- hopefully by mid-December. (Update 10/22/15: The committee completed consideration of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act today. An amendment offered by Reps.
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How Walkability Raises Home Values in U.S. Cities
This paper explores the connection between home values andwalkability, as measured by the Walk Score algorithm.
We have been advocating together for three years for a new transportation bill that supports Safe Routes to School, walking and bicycling. Now that Congress has passed the FAST Act and locked in funding for the Transportation Alternatives Program (or as it is now also known the STP Setaside), what should advocates be focusing on?
The City of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma recently became the first city in the state to approve a Complete Streets ordinance with the unanimous approval of Ordinance No. 2016-01.
When we talk about federal transportation dollars in this space, we most often focus on the Transportation Alternatives Program, since it has a strong focus on funding Safe Routes to School programs and bicycling and walking infrastructure.