The Erie School District is ready to put adult monitors on buses for high school students.
The proposed move comes in response to an incident in which a 15-year-old Erie High School student was charged with stabbing another 15-year-old student on a bus as it was leaving Erie High in early January.
At the request of Erie schools Superintendent Brian Polito, the Erie School Board is scheduled to vote on a contract for the monitoring program at the board’s regular monthly meeting on Wednesday night.
The monitors will go on the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority buses that transport high school students before and after school.
The buses — four routes in the morning and five in the afternoon — carry students who attend Erie High, 3325 Cherry St. , and students who attend Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy, 2825 State St. Non-students can also ride those buses.
The program is designed “to improve the atmosphere on the bus and the monitoring of students while they are on EMTA buses,” Neal Brokman, the Erie School District’s assistant superintendent for operations, told the School Board as he presented the plan at the board’s non-voting study session on Feb. 7 .