The New Orleans Charter Science & Mathematics High School was awarded $3.1 million in grant funds by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program to help fund the process.
Despite the grim statistic, school bus crashes are on the decline. Occupants of other vehicles are most likely to die in a school bus crash than those aboard the bus.
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The program will use a 'train-the-trainer' approach to increase school districts’ capacity to adopt electric school buses, particularly in disadvantaged communities facing the greatest inequities based on income, race, pollution, and tribal status.