such ten-mile limit shall not apply to area vocational technical
schools which regularly serve eligible district pupils or to
special schools and classes approved by the Department of
Education, and to and from any points within or without the
Commonwealth in order to provide field trips for any purpose
connected with the educational pursuits of the pupils. When
provision is made by a board of school directors for the
transportation of public school pupils to and from such schools
or to and from any points within or without the Commonwealth in
order to provide field trips as herein provided, the board of
school directors shall also make identical provision for the
free transportation of pupils who regularly attend nonpublic
kindergarten, elementary and high schools not operated for
profit to and from such schools or to and from any points within
or without the Commonwealth in order to provide field trips as
herein provided. Such transportation of pupils attending
nonpublic schools shall be provided during regular school hours
on such dates and periods that the nonpublic school not operated
for profit is in regular session, according to the school
calendar officially adopted by the directors of the same in
accordance with provisions of law. The board of school directors
shall provide such transportation whenever so required by any of
the provisions of this act or of any other act of Assembly.
(1.1) T he board of school directors in any school district
shall, out of the funds of the district, provide for the free
transportation of any resident pupil to and from the
kindergarten, elementary school or secondary school in which the
resident pupil is lawfully enrolled if an individual required to
register under 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 97 Subch. H (relating to
registration of sexual offenders) resides within the school
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