SchoolBus logo in red and orange
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH
Enter keywords to search across all content
Newsby Thomas McMahonNovember 9, 2015

NAPT heads back to Kansas City in 2016

The association’s 42nd Summit will return to Kansas City, Missouri, which was the site of the 2014 event.

Read More →
Newsby StaffAugust 25, 2015

Clean Energy to build new CNG station for Missouri district

The company will construct a new station for North Kansas City School District that includes fast-fill and time-fill fueling options, and will modify a maintenance facility for CNG-fueled buses.

Read More →
Newsby Thomas McMahonJune 2, 2015

88% of Missouri school buses pass initial inspection

The percentage is up nearly four points from last year’s results in the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s annual school bus inspection program.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby StaffApril 30, 2015

First Student retains contracts, adds propane buses

The company will replace the fleet of Council Rock School District in Newtown, Pennsylvania, with 150 of the alternative-fuel buses and will continue to provide service to two Missouri school districts.

Read More →
Newsby StaffFebruary 14, 2015

School bus crossing light allowed in 4 more states

The Gardian Angel safety lighting system is now allowed for use on school buses in Wisconsin, Missouri, Texas and Alaska.

Read More →
Newsby StaffFebruary 9, 2015

Missouri district to get new school bus facility

The building will have more than five times the space of the Republic School District’s current facility, with an additional entrance and exit, bigger driver training and bus repair areas, and additional staff parking spots.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby StaffJanuary 5, 2015

District apologizes for taking blind student’s cane as punishment

North Kansas City (Mo.) Schools apologized for confiscating a blind student’s cane last month and giving him a foam tube to use instead. The boy threw the cane into the air as he was tapping it to music while on the bus, and school officials thought he was getting violent.

Read More →
Newsby StaffDecember 9, 2014

STA to expand service to Missouri

The contractor will provide Columbia Public Schools with 212 new school vehicles. The contract marks the company's first operations in the state.

Read More →
Newsby StaffDecember 4, 2014

Dad boards school bus, delivers atheistic message

The man’s daughter had reportedly said on the bus that “there is no God,” and the next day, the dad got on board and gave a similar message.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
School Bus Fleet Blogby Thomas McMahonNovember 24, 2014

School bus snow globe makes surprise return at NAPT

Kim Hamilton went to the NAPT Summit on a mission to bring back valuable information and training opportunities for the members of the Oklahoma Association for Pupil Transportation, of which she is executive director. But she had one other task to attend to: bringing me a snow globe that I had won at the conference two years ago.

Read More →