Some pupil transporters increasingly look beyond the big yellow bus to transport students with special needs and those who are homeless or in foster care, choosing minivans, taxicabs, and other smaller-capacity vehicles.
In a letter to school superintendents, the state departments of Environmental Management, Health, and Elementary and Secondary Education encourage districts to enforce anti-idling laws.
First Student and the drivers’ union agree on a contract that includes enhanced healthcare and retirement benefits as well as increased wages, ending an 11-day strike.
Officials are investigating the blaze at a First Student bus yard, and are considering the cause suspicious at this time.
Dee Dee Whitman, a mayoral candidate for Providence, Rhode Island, sees a story about a student who uses a wheelchair having to miss school due to a driver strike. She pays for a van to take him to school the following day.
The state Department of Education denies requests from Warwick Public Schools to eliminate bus monitors and to charge students to ride school buses and participate in school sports.
The Rhode Island man faces felony charges of larceny over $1,500 and conspiracy in connection with the alleged theft of the batteries.
The contractor expands in New England with an agreement to operate 23 buses for transporting North Providence School Department students.
The legislation does not specify whether the restraints would have to be lap-shoulder belts or whether lap-only belts would suffice.
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