The New Orleans City Council has agreed to new rules for bus companies that serve the city’s charter schools. The council on Feb. 8 approved rules proposed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration that are aimed at correcting problems officials recently …
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended for the first time that all new school buses in the U.S. be equipped with lap and shoulder belts. The NTSB also voted to recommend that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …
More than a year after a law was signed requiring them, child-detection sensors are still not installed on most new school buses because regulations on how to implement it have not been approved. Gov. Chris Christie signed Abigail’s Law in …
A bill that would require school buses to have seatbelts is being considered by lawmakers in Washington, one of more than a dozen states where school seatbelt measures are on the legislative agenda this year. The Senate Transportation Committee held …
A Nevada Highway Patrol program that inspects the state’s school buses for safety is overlooking dozens of vehicles that don’t fall under the traditional definition of a bus, according to state auditors. The audit released earlier this month said about …
This week mark’s Alabama School Bus Safety Week. The state Department of Education is using the week to urge motorists to be especially cautious around buses and school children. The department’s public transportation administrator, Brad Holley, says transportation employees strive …
Nine students around the nation, including one in Wyoming, died at or near school bus stops in 2011. The horror of that death and the number of drivers who disregard rules involving buses stopped for students has prompted a Wyoming …
A former Alaska State Trooper criticized the company that oversees student transportation for the Fairbanks North Star Borough District, saying the firm had a lax approach to bus safety before public complaints. School district superintendent Pete Lewis ordered the review …
The penalties for ignoring that small stop sign extended from a school bus have drastically increased in Nebraska, but local officials say drivers continue to ignore the safety measure. A change to the state law approved by the Legislature during …
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged more support for school safety following the crash of a bus earlier this month that killed 19 children. Wen told a conference in Beijing on Sunday that all types of harm to children must …