Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze More than 500 districts nationwide are still waiting on around $1 billion from the EPA to cover more than 3,400 ...

Michigan school districts use about 13,000 school buses to transport about 800,000 Michigan public school students. The auditor general routinely conducts performance audits of state agencies.

Electric buses aren’t new or novel. In the U.S., nearly 5,000 electric school buses serve approximately 254,000 students in 49 states, plus territories and seven tribal schools.

The sale price was $13,500, Liebow and Weaver each said, about $150,000 less than what PSD would pay for a comparable new bus. And it only had 80,810 miles on it — more than 100,000 fewer than ...

The district said the purchase of 10 propane buses and 15 electric buses comes out to be $7.36 million, which is more than the EPA Clean School Bus Program grant.

Pre-K students climb on board one of Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12’s zero-emissions, all-electric Jouley buses from Thomas Built Buses on Jan. 21 at Somerville Elementary School in ...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (WCMH) — After months of community input, Pickerington Local School District has narrowed its options for new school start times. In collaboration with a committee of paren… ...

The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act created once- in-a-generation funding to electrify school buses across the country.The legislation allows utility ...

Durham desperately needs more school bus drivers. Durham Public Schools, like many districts nationwide, has struggled to hire enough bus drivers. This school year, over 22,000 children — 73% ...

The U.S. electric school bus fleet is growing — providing a cleaner, safer alternative to diesel buses that worsen air quality, harm health, ... Electric school buses in 49 states.

Additionally, a 2024 study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that replacing diesel school buses with electric ones could generate up to $247,600 in climate and health ...

During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.