Among the five safety improvements it seeks on highways, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) calls for the required use of collision avoidance and connected vehicle technologies on all vehicles in its 2021-2022 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements. […]
By: Ryan Gray The timing for Suzanne Sullivan’s Green Bus Summit discussion on the current federal prioritization of electric school buses couldn’t have been better. A day after Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Thomas Built Buses manufacturing plant in […]
By: Ryan Gray As the Biden administration makes its push to garner support for its ambitious and controversial $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, electric school buses are taking center stage. Contained within the plan to increase job and wages as well […]
By Taylor Hannon As more schools across the nation announce closures as a precaution of or in response to confirmed cases of COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, some student transportation departments are taking extraordinary measures to disinfect their school […]
By Taylor Hannon Staff members of the Tri-County Area School District in Plainfield, Wisconsin are leaning on each other for support after the death of a 6-year-old kindergarten student while she attempted to board her school bus. A vehicle was […]
By Taylor Hannon Amid a new bill designed to make children feel safer at school, the Child Safety Network (CSN) is working with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the state of Colorado to strengthen school bus security. Ward Leber, […]
By Ryan Gray School Transportation News The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution for a seventh consecutive year that declares September 2019 as National School Bus Safety Month. The bill, which passed the evening of July 31, recognizes school buses […]
MINNEAPOLIS — A man who allegedly shot at a school bus and wounded the bus driver following a minor traffic incident was charged with attempted murder on Thursday. Kenneth Lilly, 31, was charged with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault, […]
David George, STN Online A new FBI report on active shooters nationwide over the past decade found that nine out of 10 perpetrators were male, and three out of four suspects knew their attack site beforehand. The 30-page document, “A […]
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