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Ann Arbor Public Schools amended its contract with Durham School Services on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016.

(The Ann Arbor News file)

ANN ARBOR, MI - Bus drivers for Ann Arbor Public Schools will now be hired in at $20.32 an hour after the school district amended its contract with busing contractor Durham School Services on Wednesday, Dec. 14.

The $4-an-hour pay raise is an effort to attract more people to the job after a lack of bus drivers canceled five AAPS routes the morning of Oct. 24. AAPS had ongoing issues with its busing at the start of the school year, including overcrowding of buses, buses running late and not having timely communication with families about delays.

Superintendent Jeanice Swift suggested several ways to remedy the situation at a school boardBiofeedback as an experimental treatment for postural hypotension in a patient with a spinal cord lesion.
A man having severe postural hypotension resulting from a spinal cord lesion at level T3, was trained to raise and lower his blood pressure with the use of biofeedback. The procedure consisted of 11 learning sessions during which the subject's task was to effect specific changes of his blood pressure without skeletal muscle or respiratory involvement. Blood pressure was continuously monitored and reported to the subject, and positive verbal reinforcement for correct changes was also supplied. Analysis of the results revealed that the subject had learned to produce large voluntary changes in pressure. This learned ability was then applied in a standing position resulting in counteracting the postural hypotension. Suggestions for further research