DDOT Continues to Grow Its School Crossing Guard Force
(Washington, DC)— Each day, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), deploys over 200 School Crossing Guards to hundreds of public and charter elementary and middle schools around the District, and in some cases, multiple locations around a single school.
In our most recent blog post, DDOT highlights the importance of the District’s School Crossing Guards:
It was closing in on the end of the school year and Kiarra Hunt was waiting for what had become a daily ritual: a high five from a passing Dad who was ushering his two small children to Van Ness Elementary School. The father was one in a long line of parents, guardians and children that Ms. Hunt, a DDOT school crossing guard (SCG), looked forward to greeting as she safely ferried them across 5th Street SE on their way to school.
Ms. Hunt is one of the many new faces that DDOT has welcomed to the growing ranks of its SCG program. Since it began overseeing the District’s crossing guard program in 2007, the agency has steadily grown its SCG ranks to 265 staff members as of FY 2018, which is more than a 31 percent increase from the number of SCGs that were employed in FY 2017.
For the full story about our School Crossing Guard program, please visit ddotdelivers.com.
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