School transportation officials cite stop-arm violation statistics and remind motorists to stop for school buses.
A young 4-H member’s project turns into legislation that gives Arkansas residents the legal framework to ask their school districts to require seat belts on school buses.
The Arkansas sheriff’s deputy is terminated for giving conflicting accounts of the incident.
Simmons will step down after more than 16 years as the state’s pupil transportation director, a role in which he worked to bolster school bus inspections and driver training.
Students from Mountain Home (Ark.) High School created this dramatic video to draw attention to the dangers of illegally passing school buses.
Video footage from the Arkansas bus shows a student exiting and then the bus driver honking as a police car passes the bus in the September incident.
Arkansas becomes the 15th state to allow the Gardian Angel safety lighting system for use on school buses.
A former Arkansas county deputy said he initially took the picture to show how fast the bus was driving. He later enlarged it and spotted the children sitting on the steps.
The statewide effort aims to inform motorists of the importance of stopping for stopped school buses. Arkansas state pupil transportation director Mike Simmons and Kimberly Friedman of the state Department of Education have been making media appearances to promote the campaign, dubbed B.U.S.
The five drivers from an Arkansas school district have sought to refrain from union membership and dues. According to a foundation that is providing free legal assistance to the drivers, union officials denied the drivers' requests, saying that they can only resign their union membership during a 15-day "window period" in July.
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