School districts provide bus info by phone, online
The Lafayette (La.) Parish School System has established a call center and Website to provide bus stop information for students and parents, while Hartford Public Schools has dedicated a phone line where parents can call to find out if their children are eligible for bus rides. To read the full stories, click here and here.

Some recommendations after New Brunswick crash not adopted
BATHURST, New Brunswick — The government will not impose requirements that students traveling for extracurricular activities be transported in school buses or that drivers hold school bus licenses, recommendations proposed in the wake of a deadly 15-passenger van crash last year. To read the full story, click here.

Nonprofit raises funds to purchase school bus
BEVERLY, Mass. — The executive director of the Children’s Learning Center touted the economic and environmental benefits of transporting children in a school bus, recently purchased through donations. To read the full story, click here.