Of yellow school buses in the city, those under contract with the New York City Department of Education, including buses the city contracts for some charter and private schools, are exempt.

Earlier this year, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a goal to have all school buses to be electric by 2035. Push for zero-emission and electric vehicles in New York State ...

Moreover, the school-bus system doesn’t serve all students—a 2020 study of New York City’s school-bus ridership found that Black and Hispanic K–6 students are more likely to attend schools ...

New York State is mandating that every district stop buying new diesel buses by 2027 and stop using all diesel buses by 2035. 80 buses will be picking up kids in the Gates-Chili School District ...

Approximately 150,000 students take a yellow school bus across the five boroughs. News. ... — New York City has launched a new school bus app that will help families track their student's bus ...

By 2027, all new school buses sold in New York must be zero-emission, and by 2035, ... Will it negatively impact the yellow school bus coming to your neighborhood? We think it will." ...

The yellow school bus, once an American staple for getting kids from point A to point B and a tool that helped ensure equal access to schools, is now so difficult to access that some parents are ...

The origins of standardizing yellow as the color of school buses go all the way back to 1939. Frank W. Cyr, known as the "father of the yellow school bus," picked up the color with help from peers ...

During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.

The yellow school bus is now so difficult to access that parents are using rideshares, carpools and cutting back on work to get kids to school. The yellow school bus – once a symbol of ...

The yellow shade, which is also referred to as National School Bus Chrome, has almost become synonymous with schools, in the ...