City will phase in 75 electric school buses over the next two years; To support citywide electric vehicle adoption, the administration will expand legislation that requires all new parking lots include EV charging infrastructure. NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down on his commitment to reduce carbon and air pollution from vehicles by announcing that […]
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Ex-Leader of Bus Drivers’ Union Is Sentenced in Bribery Case
EX-LEADER OF BUS DRIVERS’ UNION IS SENTENCED IN BRIBERY CASE The former president of a union representing 15,000 New York City school bus drivers was sentenced on Thursday to four years and nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty to extortion and receiving bribes in a Mafia-controlled racketeering conspiracy. Related Article: LOGAN BUS CO. […]
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SCHOOL BUS SAFETY OFFICIALS ARE ACCUSED OF SOLICITING BRIBES Four City Department of Education employees were charged in a federal indictment on Tuesday with soliciting bribes in exchange for promising preferential treatment, including on safety inspections, to bus companies that serve thousands of special education students. In an indictment unsealed in Manhattan, prosecutors said the […]
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FBI Claims School Bus Owner Paid Mob Union
FBI Claims School Bus Owner Paid Mob Union January 23, 2008 – The feds have busted a school bus company owner implicated in a growing scandal that’s tarnished the city’s Department of Education, the Daily News has learned. Joseph Fazzia, owner of Jofaz Transportation, was quietly charged last week with making false statements to the […]
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October 11, 2005 – New York City’s fleet of 6,200 yellow school buses is the largest in the country by far. And despite recent efforts to clean up the most polluting buses in the fleet, it may still be one of the dirtiest.
In a city with asthma rates so high that in some neighborhoods — Harlem, for example — one in four children has the disease, officials have found that efforts to reduce harmful emissions from school buses are hindered by the age of the fleet and by the fact that the buses are owned not by the city, but by outside companies.
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HOW TO HANDLE NYC DOE SCHOOL BUS COMPANY CONTRACT PAYMENTS DURING COVID-19 I. Introduction Recently, the Department of Education’s Panel for Educational Policy postponed review of school bus contract extensions for March and April. The contracts were implemented at the beginning of March as a result of an emergency declared by the Department of Education. […]
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CASH-STRAPPED NYC SET TO POUR $700M ‘DOWN THE DRAIN’ ON IDLE SCHOOL BUSES April 18, 2020 – Mayor de Blasio has announced a $827 million cut in the city education budget, but officials want to spend up to $700 million through June on buses — while schools are closed. Under a massive city budget cut, […]
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$94M SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTS UNDER FIRE FOR POSSIBLE COLLUSION June 17, 2015 – The city comptroller has asked the feds to investigate possible collusion by school-bus companies after finding poor oversight of contracts worth $94 million. Soon after winning the contracts in 2013, five bus firms handed them over to competitors that also took part […]
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4,500 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS, THEIR CO-WORKERS LEFT JOBLESS ON LONG ISLAND April 10, 2020 – An estimated 4,500 school bus drivers and co-workers are jobless on Long Island in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, as school districts fearful of funding losses cut off payments to contractors, union and industry representatives said. The contractual cutoffs, […]
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STUDY FINDS ASTHMA IN 25% OF CHILDREN IN CENTRAL HARLEM New York – April 19, 2003 – A study has found that one of every four children in central Harlem has asthma, which is double the rate researchers expected to find and, experts say, is one of the highest rates ever documented for an American […]
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