FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's education minister says he's satisfied that school officials followed policies to ensure student safety after chartered buses were stopped recently in Nova Scotia over tire-tread standards.Jody Carr says he is still awaiting results of an investigation by his province's Department of Public Safety into the incident.
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Two buses owned by Prestige Bus Service of Sackville, N.B., were carrying about 60 students during a field trip last week when they were stopped by Nova Scotia highway safety inspectors.
Carr has advised schools not to use the company until the investigation is complete.
He says considerable improvements have been made to policies governing student transportation, but more work remains.
Carr says the provincial government has committed to create a strategy on extra-curricular activity transportation, and he will have more to say about it early in the new year.
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