Mayor de Blasio Commits to 100% Electric School Bus Fleet By 2035

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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School Bus Safety Officials Are Accused of Soliciting Bribes

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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School Buses May Foul Air for Many Years

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

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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