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Before sunrise on school days, 7-year-old Laike Glesne used to lug his backpack from a Chicago public bus to a train and then a second train to get to his second grade classroom 20 miles south of his ...

On the days Briggitte Beauchamps drives her daughter to a school bus stop in Florida, she is haunted by a phone call she received in mid-October. Beauchamps’ husband had just dropped off their ...

This back-to-school season, the list of electronics includes not just laptops and calculators but something a little bigger — the school bus. Nearly 200,000 of the more than 25 million students who ...

The 10-bus pilot is part of the agency's efforts to transition to a climate-friendly fleet. But it has attracted criticism from some environmentalists. Employees with SEPTA and other transit agencies ...

Lucas Sweeten converted his first school bus into a mobile home in 2007. Now he works with students to transform school buses to help their communities. Lucas Sweeten has converted school buses into ...

Children cross the street in front of a yellow school bus in 1965. H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock via Getty Images In a 1939 issue of American Childhood, the lyrics to the song, “The Wheels on ...

LANSING, Mich. — School busses in Michigan need to go through a yearly inspection by the Michigan State Police (MSP) and that inspection data is now available to the public through QR codes on bus ...

In lots of ways, the electric bus feels like a technology whose time has come. Transportation is responsible for about a quarter of global emissions, and those emissions are growing faster than in any ...

WHY THOSE BUSSES AREN’T MAKING THE CUT BEFORE THE FIRST BELL RINGS, INSPECTORS PUT THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL BUSSES TO THE TEST. OKAY, PRESS AND HOLD THE BRAKE, BRAKES, LIGHTS, RIGHT AND LEFT DIRECTIONAL ...