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Children boarding a school bus with text reading "Rhode Island Passes School Bus Camera Law."
Newsby StaffJuly 17, 2025

Rhode Island Enacts School Bus Camera Law to Boost Driver and Student Safety

The new law requires all RI state school buses to install outward-facing cameras to deter illegal passing and protect riders on board.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 2, 2025

Rhode Island School's Electric Buses Reach 100K Milestone

The public charter school's 24 new electric buses operated by Durham School Services have already reached an electrifying milestone.

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Blackstone Valley Prep ribbon cutting
Newsby News/Media ReleaseJanuary 29, 2025

Rhode Island School Celebrates New Electric Buses

Blackstone Valley Prep officially unveiled 24 electric buses operating in its fleet since mid-December.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 10, 2024

Connecticut, Rhode Island Schools Add New Safety Cameras to Buses

BusPatrol expands to two new New England schools, offering its camera tech to improve safety on over 400 buses.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseNovember 29, 2023

First Student Deploys First Electric School Buses in Rhode Island

Four new EV school buses join the fleet of Providence Public Schools.

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Articlesby Sadiah Thompson January 29, 2020

School Bus Alternatives Meet a Range of Standards, Student Needs

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.

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Newsby StaffNovember 27, 2018

Rhode Island School Districts Asked to Reduce Bus Idling

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.

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Newsby Nicole SchlosserOctober 15, 2018

Rhode Island School Bus Driver Strike Ends

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.

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NewsOctober 15, 2018

5 Rhode Island School Buses Destroyed by Fire

Officials are investigating the blaze at a First Student bus yard, and are considering the cause suspicious at this time.

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Newsby Nicole SchlosserOctober 1, 2018

Mayoral Candidate Pays for Special-Needs Student's Ride to School During Bus Strike

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. 

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