For use by owners, operators, and instructors of driving schools, as well as teen and adult students, and parents of teen students.

DSAC has received  reports that  its member schools have had to do extra work with their students in order to make up for what may not have been taught, or may not have been taught effectively, by other sources, or PROVIDERS of driver education and driver training.  We have also had reports about compliance issues. We are interested in learning about the scope of these problems. We are asking both member and non-member schools to provide information by submitting information.

As sources of inadequate driver education and training are allowed to continue, the number of inadequately prepared young drivers on the road increases. And, the threat to the lives of these drivers and the threat to public safety continues to increase.

As the public becomes aware of situations such as these, our entire industry suffers a loss of credibility.

DSAC is interested in gathering as much information as we can about the situations that have been described to us.

You can help, by providing information on each incident or example of inadequate driver education or driver training.  Please provide any specific information you may have. The more specific you are, the more effective we can be.

The main scenarios we've heard about are these. Choose one of the links, and you'll go to the submission form.

Student Must Repeat Driver Education The student receives driver education from one source, and must take driver education again, from another source, in order to pass the DMV test.

Driver Education Inadequate The student receives driver education from one source, and goes to another source for driver training. The source for driver training is forced to provide additional in-car driver education to compensate for driver education topics not provided by or taught ineffectively by the first source.

Driver Training Inadequate The student completes driver training with another source, and goes to a second source to take more driver training -- not just to have additional driving time, but because it is felt that the first training was inadequately done.

Student Must Repeat Driver Training to compensate for  ineffective teaching by the first source.

Driver Education Shortcuts  Student may have obtained driver education certificate without attending the full class time or receiving the full curriculum. Or, student may have taken class training in a manner  not allowed by any approved curriculum.

Driver Training Shortcuts Student may have obtained driver training certificate without receiving the full training time, or without receiving the full curriculum. Or, student may have taken behind the wheel training in a manner  not allowed by any approved curriculum.

Fraudulent Certificate Student may have purchased a driver education or driver training certificate without receiving instruction.

By SOURCE, we mean ANY source of driver education or driver training. This could be a commercial driving school, home study, a church school, a private school, a secondary school, a charter school, a community college, an adult school, a correspondence course, or a distance learning course. It may also be an individual providing instruction, or an individual or a business that you believe may be selling driver education or driver training certificates illegally. If you are an industry professional, it may also be an individual or business that may be short-cutting allowable curricula, or allowing students to drive too little time, or not providing required classroom time.

If you are aware of a situation, you can submit information by clicking on any of the links in the above list of "Scenarios". You'll be taken to a submission form. When you complete the form, it will be sent to us by email. If you give us your email address, we'll keep you posted on the progress of this project.

What can be done with this information? We'll have to review the data we collect thoroughly, and see how we can use it to maximize public safety.

Thanks for your help.