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Fifth grade students at Whittier International Elementary School in Minneapolis piled onto the electric school bus for a short ride through the neighborhood, a field trip that grew out of a letter ...
August 23, 2024 at 8:46 PM. Aug. 23—Tens of thousands of students — including those who go to Nashua, Derry and Rochester schools — face a potential school bus strike in the opening weeks of ...
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 sickout was originally planned for April 19–23, the strike was organized by several bus drivers that went under the labor group name, "DeKalb County School Bus Driver Solidarity Coalition". On April 19, about 380 bus drivers participated of the 908 total, causing nearly 60-90 minute delays for the pickup of students.
Before the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation, African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. [2]
The second bus is labeled "Further" on the front and "Furthur" on the back. It is not called Furthur 2, and is not meant as a replica, although confusion between the two buses is intentional. The bus was created to coincide with the publication of Kesey's memoirs about the 1964 trip, entitled The Further Inquiry (ISBN 0670831743). [6] [7] [8]
September 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM. A Jefferson County Public School bus driver announced her resignation Friday, one week after an assault that left a student with two black eyes broke out on her bus ...
A memorial to the disaster sits in front of the old Floyd County Courthouse in Prestonsburg. The collision and plunge into Big Sandy River involving a school bus near Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on February 28, 1958, resulted in the deaths of 26 students and the bus's driver. It was the third-deadliest bus crash in United States history, tied for ...