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A study of school buses in Washington state found using cleaner fuels or upgrading older diesel reduced children’s exposure to airborne particles by as much as 50% and improved their health.

A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip — an experience their teacher said highlights problems with the education system. Jim Mayers, an 11th grade Advanced Placement language and composition teacher at the Brooke Charter School in Boston, said in…

A bus driver shortage forced a suburban school district to switch some of its schools to remote learning Tuesday, closing multiple schools down to students.

After positive coronavirus tests shut down Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center the last week of summer, staff were thrilled to reopen for the first week of school. But when Boston school buses sat empty due to a driver shortage, it wasn’t just public schools that felt the hit— centers like Sportsmen’s, and the families who rely on them, were left...

Amid a national school bus driver shortage, the Massachusetts National Guard is being activated to help get kids to schools at the start of the new year.

A nationwide school bus driver shortage, the worst in decades, is hitting the Chicago area right as schools get back in session.

Democratic lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would invest $25 billion to convert the nation’s fleet of gasoline- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles

A camera on a school bus captured the moment a deer crashed through the windshield and landed on a student in the front seat.

In NBC 5 Investigates, a troubling episode on a school bus involving a child with autism was caught on tape. Phil Rogers reports.

Warning: Details in this story may be disturbing to some. Reader discretion is advised. A troubling episode on a suburban Chicago school bus involving a 9-year-old child with autism is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court. During that incident, captured on the school bus security camera, the child, Aiden Sanchez, appears to first be…

Science teacher John King and his wife have traveled across Massachusetts in their school bus to bring real-world science lessons to his students stuck at home in Lowell.

A man driving a rental truck that collided with a school bus in Georgia helped free trapped students before he collapsed and died.

The family of a west suburban middle schooler with a physical disability is suing Community Unit School District 303 in St. Charles after an accident on board a school bus left him hospitalized for two months. Corban Pearson, 14, suffered multiple fractures, respiratory failure, brain injuries and decreased mobility, after being pinned to the floor of a school bus by…

A video of an Ohio school bus flipping over and sending kids flying from their seats into the roof is making some people wonder whether seat belts should be mandated on all school buses.

School district officials in Waushara County say a kindergarten student was killed and her sibling was injured when they were struck by a vehicle just before boarding a bus. The Tri-County Area School District says the children were hit along Highway 73 southeast of Plainfield just after 7 a.m. Monday. WLUK-TV reports district administrator Anthony Marinack says the bus was…

Chopper 4 showed an army of law enforcement officers at the scene. The entire block radius was cordoned off by caution tape as authorities checked out the bus and canvassed the scene for evidence. The search for a suspect is ongoing.

A school bus with a child aboard was hit as a hail of gunfire erupted after an argument in Brooklyn Tuesday, though none of the kids were hurt, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell News 4.

tkAn 18-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a school bus Wednesday morning in northwest suburban Elgin.

The company that operated a Whittier school bus on which an autistic man was found dead after being left alone on the vehicle for an unknown amount of time said today a series of changes are being implemented to prevent anyone from being forgotten on a bus again.