Sept 2025 Events
A. PIST meetings & Events we are helping to organize
Parents to Improve School Transportation has *two* September meetings:
(1) Friday 9/12 at 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
Strategy discussion (how to call out the systemwide problems)
(2) Tuesday 9/16 at 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Route clinic (how to express individual route problems in writing)
Empezemos en ingles pero Hablamos español si le haga falta
Link for virtual PIST member/volunteer meetings this school year: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82470154849?pwd=EkGoVlJygHnxz7MZPqMQC2OT5x0tK1.1
Meeting ID: 824 7015 4849 Passcode: 937177
Contact pistnyc@gmail.com to request reminders or more info.
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RALLY Monday 22 Sept from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
in front of City Hall steps, Manhattan
Sponsored by the the Road to Better Busing coalition
Live registration link in flyer at https://t.co/o6c3uE5uej
PIST will be there with the message that the City and State must RESPECT
school bus riders’ civil rights and school bus workers’ job satisfaction
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PEP vote Thursday Sept. 25th at 6:00 p.m.
Francis Lewis High School in Queens
Attend Panel for Education Policy meeting,
which votes on emergency school bus contract extensions.
Speak on ways to upgrade bus regulations, communication, training, routing,
and how busing can be scaled up to support fuller inclusion of students.
UFT, the teachers’ union, is providing a bus from 558 Grand Concourse in the Bronx;
Students welcome with caregiver and release form.
You must board between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m.
Return to the Bronx by bus is scheduled for 9:00 p.m.
Please Complete this Interest form: tinyurl.com/PEP
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B. Other events of interest
Thurs Sept 11 at 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. District 75 president’s council monthly Zoom Meeting
https://nycdoe.zoom.us/j/95301806013?pwd=M3GayThat0qlC4ZtZXL1Kqt0gLESi6.1
Includes a busing update.
Meeting ID: 953 0180 6013
Passcode: 757575
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Saturday Sept 13 at 12 noon in the Chelsea part of Manhattan.
March to stop demolition of 24 public housing buildings.
This includes many disabled and elder neighbors, and of course students!
P138M@33 and its 10 daily buses will be in the shadow of the cranes and dust/asbestos, unless this is stopped (as advised by the local Community Board and organizations of residents, architects, lawyers). https://docs.google.com/document/d/168AGmlPRxRDvfX81ZlTF-iVo7Wms7pPu_bho8mnEwgE/edit?usp=sharing
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Tues Sept 16 4:00 PM –5:00 PM Virtual
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Tues Sept 16 6:30 p.m.
Citywide Council on Special Education monthly hybrid meeting
In Person: Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street – 2nd fl. Conf. Rm Register ccse@schools.nyc.gov
Online: Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/p4Bx6ArjSVWfCtAdHtaAPw
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Miercoles 17 de septiembre 4:00 PM –5:00 PM Taller Virtual
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Thursday September 18 from 10 am to 11:30 am Virtual
English, Mandarin (中文/国语) Interpretation, Spanish Interpretation
https://includenyc.org/events/specialized-transportation-for-students-with-ieps-9/
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Sunday Sept 21 from 10 am to 5 pm
Communities Together festival
[PIST table hours approximately 12-2pm, contact 631.743.6296 to be sure]
41st Street between 7th and 6th Avenues, Manhattan
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qn-10gmG0s1YhXeVJqdXTuEMTJKmR2xg/view?usp=sharing
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Sunday Sept 21 starting at 9:00 a.m. (opening ceremony at 8:30) on Long Island:
Inclusion in Motion 2025 is a 6-hour endurance event at Heckscher State Park where athletes of all abilitiescome together to promote inclusion and defy limits.
All proceeds go directly to helping provide grants to families and individuals for necessary medical equipment, services, home modifications, etc. not covered by insurance
https://events.elitefeats.com/25inclusioninmotion
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Parent teacher conference schedule is at https://www.schools.nyc.gov/calendar/2025-2026-school-year-calendar
Bring PIST flyers!
Reminder no public school September 23 and 24, Rosh Hashanah
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English flyer for CCD75 Bus Committee Sept. 29
Mandarin flyer for CCD75 Bus Committee Sept. 29
Spanish flyer for CCD75 Bus Committee Sept. 29
Bangla flyer for CCD75 Bus Committee Sept. 29
Monday Sept 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. District 75 council’s Busing Committee first meeting of the school year
PIST will be there! Flyers above and at https://www.instagram.com/p/DOy8J3kCcVt/?img_index=4
🔹 Share your busing experiences
🔹 Learn about updates and advocacy efforts
🔹 Help shape recommendations for safer, more reliable service
Register here: https://nycdoe.zoom.us/meeting/register/dZZojBf2RsSgNGR8qvLmvA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Interpretation available in Spanish, Mandarin and Bangla.
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Tuesday Sept 30 at 1:00 PM City Council Hearing on Oversight: Language Access in New York City Public Schools ***relocated*** to Hearing Room 1 on the 8th floor at 250 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 and via Zoom web conference,
School busing activists can comment on the difficulties with finding someone to talk to about bus problems in the home language (even Spanish!!) at the $6.7 million a year OPT call center; on the fact that the bus emergency contact card is only given out when the bus team is unionized and knows better whereas other vendors and subcontractors don’t do it and the schools website does not contain a pdf of the translated side, and OPT refuses to mail them home. ETCETERA !
If you plan on testifying in-person or via Zoom, please register in advance of the hearing at https://council.nyc.gov/testify.
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