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The criterion for a snow day is primarily the inability of school buses to operate safely on their routes and danger to children who walk to school. Often, the school remains officially open even though buses do not run and classes are cancelled. More and more schools are closing due to extreme heat, "heat days". Heat days are like snow days.
A worker clears snow off school buses, after schools were closed due to a storm, in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. Another winter blast of snow and strong winds moved into the Northeast ...
The bus routes drivers were following were rarely updated, and the audit recommended school officials get “more creative” when designing bus routes each year, Tahiliani said.
According to the research, there was an approximately 15% overall reduction in bus drivers since 2019, with 192,400 drivers working in K–12 schools in September 2023, and a 13.6% decline in ...
For this reason, as well as for reasons of perceived threat associated with large gatherings, many events were postponed or cancelled. Other events were also cancelled, postponed, or modified: Voting on September 11 in the New York City mayoral primary was halted. Elections in Syracuse and Buffalo, New York were also delayed.
Other times the bus has gotten to school after 10 a.m., nearly three hours after school starts at 7:30 a.m. "I wake them up at 5:30 to get on the bus at 6:20," she said. "That's a long time to be ...
The warning lamps initially used for school buses consisted of four red warning lights. With the adoption of FMVSS 108 in January 1968, four additional lights, termed advance warning lights, were gradually added to school buses; these were amber in color and mounted inboard of the red warning lights. [60]
Additionally, data from 2012 to 2021 shows that only 5% of deaths in school bus-related crashes were bus passengers, while 70% of deaths in these crashes were people in other cars.