The Minnesota driver’s employer gets complaints that he made some students feel forced to pray on the bus. The driver alleges being taken off the route violates his constitutional rights.
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Schmitty & Sons is awarded a contract to provide transportation to Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 starting on July 1.
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Gov. Mark Dayton proclaimed Feb. 28 as the second School Bus Driver Appreciation Day in the state. Drivers were acknowledged at school districts statewide and at a press conference.
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Saint Paul Public Schools and the city's mayor apologize for school bus delays that left hundreds of students stranded for several hours.
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Feature articles that drew the most traffic on the School Bus Fleet website in 2017 included tips on buying a used school bus and an immigrant’s journey from cab driver to running a school bus company.
Read More →James Brue, a county attorney, has put two people in jail for a weekend and fined them $285 since the beginning of the school year, noting that education efforts don’t seem to be effective.
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Joyce Rhoades of Minnesota credits the school bus driver with helping to save her daughter’s life when a truck illegally passed the bus as the 11-year-old was crossing.
Read More →A Minnesota woman reportedly attempts to pass a car, then notices it is stopped behind a school bus. She collides with the vehicle, which crashes into the school bus.
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Motorists cited for passing a stopped school bus will now pay $500 instead of $300. Other crackdown efforts, such as making it harder to plea down a charge, have not passed the legislature.
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Transportation provider Schmitty & Sons collaborates with two electricity cooperatives to deploy an all-electric school bus this fall.
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