John Hennessy III,
P.E.
FRONTIER GROUP U.S. PIRG ENVIRONMENT AMERICA Executive Summary: Electric Buses: Clean Transportation for Healthier Neighborhoods and Cleaner Air Buses play a key role in in our nation’s transportation system, carrying millions of children daily to and from school and moving millions of Americans each day around our cities. Buses reduce the number of individual cars […]
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School buses might not grab headlines, but they are a critical part of American K-12 education, providing millions of kids with a safe way to get to and from school each day.
But America’s school transportation system needs work — it’s expensive, inefficient, and slow to adjust to the changing education landscape.
To help people understand why we should be thinking differently about school transportation, we created a simple, 3-minute video explaining how school transportation works and doesn’t work for students, schools, and communities and how we can start thinking about solutions.
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Despite its symbolic value, the yellow school bus creates significant operational and environmental inefficiencies in many districts—inefficiencies that increasingly drain district budgets, hamper families’ access to high-quality schools outside their neighborhoods, and damage the environment.
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Transportation improvements shifted into high gear over the summer in order to give students the safest and most efficient ride possible. Reporter Claudia Shea shows us the transportation changes that are rolling out for the 2016-17 school year.
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