Dec 2025

Written By PIST NYC

Calendar of Events for December 2025 of interest to the school bus community.

  • Wednesday December 3 

Dec 3 every year is International Day of Persons with Disabilities  

#DisabilityDay and #IDPD are the main hashtags on social media. If you post about the rights of school bus riders with IEPs to have equal access to education please use #WheresMyBus as well.

 

United Nations logo of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. #IDPD #WheresMyBus

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  • Monday December 8, 6:30 p.m. Virtual Student conversation on school transportation, part 2.  

District 75 legislative council is hosting this group for school aged youth (with or without an IEP) who advocate for their & their classmates’ needs as riders of yellow buses or mass transit. 

If you know of a student who would like to be invited, contact d75prescouncil@gmail.com 

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  • Tuesday December 9 SPECIAL PIST LUNCH HOUR ZOOM: Freedom to travel for young people with disabilities. 1:00 to 2:00 PM on Zoom. With guest expert Anna Humphrey, CIDNY.org. Rights and processes for Access A ride, Reduced Fare OMNY...and always, the school bus.

Flyer below with alt text in the caption.

Please send questions in advance to pistnyc@gmail.com Then enter the waiting room at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82470154849?pwd=EkGoVlJygHnxz7MZPqMQC2OT5x0tK1.1

Meeting ID: 824 7015 4849 Passcode: 937177

 

Horizontal flyer with logos of CIDNY and PIST, graphics of people including a person using a wheelchair, a QR code and the following text: Join PIST on Tuesday December 9th. Freedom to travel for young people with disabilities. 1:00 to 2:00 PM on Zoom. With guest expert Anna Humphrey, CIDNY.org. Rights and processes for Access A ride, Reduced Fare OMNY...and always, the school bus.

  • Wednesday December 10, 1pm to 3pm

Center for Independence of the Disabled, NY monthly Consumer Action Network zoom meeting: Accessibility for Students with Disabilities & Afterschool Busing

Please RSVP in advance at tinyurl.com/CIDNY4All or email mthiam@cidny.org or call 212-674-2300 especially if you need to request accommodations! Flyer is below.

 

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  • Monday December 15 9:00 a.m. at 2 Broadway, Manhattan. Monthly MTA committee meetings, where Disability Rights activists testify about elevators and other accessibility issues. We want an end to tickets for minors whose OMNY didn’t work or got lost! Contact cidny.org or look it up on mta site.

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  • Monday December 15, 6:30 p.m. Citywide Council on District 75 Busing Committee monthly meeting with language interpretation. Give and get support on route problems.

Flyers with all of this committee’s 2025-26 meeting dates in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bangla available at https://www.instagram.com/p/DQsIPgwCetC/?img_index=1

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***Wednesday December 17, 8:45 AM.- Audit of OPT (Office of Pupil Transportation) released by NYC Comptroller’s office. Press conference indoors in the City Hall area, joined by busing advocates and activists. Space is VERY limited. Contact pistnyc@gmail.com if you wish to be part of the delegation of bus parents standing there.

 

10/31/2022 A PIST parent in a skeleton costume stands on the steps of Tweed holding a sign that reads: Waiting for school bus owners and O.P.T. to open their books!

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  • Wednesday December 17, 6:00 p.m.- Monthly Panel for Education Policy meeting, Bronx

There are no busing contracts until January. However, PEP meetings are an opportunity for public comment on transportation issues, such as the 25 year old Chancellor’s Regulation A-801 on pupil transportation eligibility.  Check https://www.schools.nyc.gov/get-involved/families/panel-for-education-policy/panel-meetings for details and visit https://www.pistnyc.org/resources/pep-comment-steps for tips on submitting comments in writing.

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  • Thursday December 18, 7:00 p.m. Citywide Council on Special Education hosts OPT. Contact ccse@schools.nyc.gov for address, link, language lines, and busing survey.

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*Public schools close Wednesday Dec 24, 2025 and reopen Monday Jan 5, 2026.

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Save the dates in 2026:

  • January PIST virtual meetings:  Friday evening January 9, and Tues lunchtime January 13

  • PIST table at Include NYC Fair:  Saturday January 24, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm, Manhattan.

  • National Transit Equity Day:  Wednesday February 4 (Rosa Parks’ birthday)

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