KAMALA HARRIS AND COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO ACCELERATE ELECTRIFICATION OF NATION’S SCHOOL BUS FLEET June 06, 2019 – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Wednesday led Senators Merkley (D-OR), Feinstein (D-CA) Booker (D-NJ), Smith (D-MN), Sanders (I-VT), and Cortez Masto (D-NV) in introducing the Clean School Bus Act, legislation to assist […]
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Lion Delivers First Electric School Bus to Lakeville Area Public Schools
SCHMITTY & SONS’ FIRST ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUS BEGINS DELIVERING STUDENTS TO LAKEVILLE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS October 3, 2017 – The first all-electric school bus in Minnesota, operated by Schmitty & Sons, recently began transporting students to and from schools in the Lakeville Area Public Schools. The school bus is a Lion Electric LionC. “This is […]
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RONKONKOMA COMPANY LAYING OFF 900 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS, OTHER EMPLOYEES March 30, 2020 – One of Long Island’s biggest school bus companies is laying off about 900 drivers and other employees Wednesday in the face of school closings because of the coronavirus, according to union representatives, who added that other transportation firms had “done the […]
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CITY SPENDING $5.9M A DAY FOR IDLED SCHOOL BUSES DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK April 4, 2020 – New York City is spending nearly $6 million a day during the coronavirus crisis for idled school buses, The Post has learned. Under contracts with school-bus companies, the nation’s largest school system is obligated to pay 85% of the […]
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WHY SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTORS NEED TO BE PAID DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK • April 7, 2020 – Many school bus companies over the state and country have reached out to me about the perils of the COVID-19 crisis and what has happened to their businesses. Mass layoffs have taken place. Shops have completely ceased operations. Many […]
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BATTLE OVER SCHOOL BUS SERVICE IN NEW YORK CITY FEBRUARY 1, 2007 – It seemed like an easy way to save millions of dollars: consolidate yellow school bus routes so New York City was no longer paying for buses for hundreds, if not thousands, of children who never actually rode them. But when the plan […]
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SCHOOL BUSES, UNIONS AND THE MOB: A SPECIAL REPORT; SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTS GO TO COMPANIES WITH TIES TO MOB December 26, 1990 – Without competitive bidding, New York City consistently awards the most expensive school bus contracts in the nation, and many have gone to companies linked to suspected organized-crime figures. One company that transported […]
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WASHINGTON, January 29, 1986 — A former New York City lawyer testified today that many of the city’s school bus contracts were held by companies with links to organized crime. The witness, Martin Light, appeared before the President’s Commission on Organized Crime to testify about how lawyers helped their clients subvert the legal system through […]
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MARCH 25, 2009 – Go nuts, punctuation sticklers. This sign, which either admonishes drivers for leaving their engines idling or encourages loafing youths to hold their breath, was recently spotted outside P.S. 277 in Brooklyn. Besides contributing to global warming, CO2 emissions from vehicles are a major factor in NYC’s high childhood asthma rates; the […]
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With contract talks stalled, thousands of school bus drivers and attendants voted Wednesday to authorize a strike against Reliant Transportation, city schools’ largest bus operator, union officials said. Two thousand workers from the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local 1181 voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike against their employer, which operates about 900 of the city’s more […]
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