Republican state lawmakers want to amend a portion of New York’s electric school bus mandate which requires electric bus fleets by 2035. They worry this will be too costly for districts. “If they want to buy them,

Now, Republican lawmakers are taking a different approach: pushing a bill to allow individual school districts to opt out of the zero-emission school bus requirements. An opt-out waiver submitted to state Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa would permanently exempt districts that are hesitant to accept the new mandate.

CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WPRI) — A Rhode Island charter school now has the largest fleet of electric school buses in the state. Blackstone Valley Prep revealed its 24 all-electric buses made by Highland Electric Fleets on Tuesday.

State Assemblyman Robert Smullen was in Albany Tuesday to promote a bill that would allow some school districts to opt out of a state mandate requiring a shift to electric buses, citing concerns of cost and infrastructure.

Legislation has been proposed to enable school districts to submit a waiver to the commissioner of education, permitting them to officially opt out of specific zero-emission school bus requirements be

New York's public schools are struggling to afford the rising costs of the state's electric school bus mandate, according to a new report by a fiscal watchdog group. The analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy estimated that the mandate to convert buses for the state's 370 school districts to e-vehicles would cost