Cleveland ISD has decided the incoming hard freeze and wintry mix is too dangerous to keep schools open. With the Texas-sized freeze arriving on Sunday and wind chills expected to plunge into the single digits, some Houston area school districts have already taken action. Still, others continue to monitor the incoming arctic front and will decide on closing schools as the system comes closer to our area.   view article

Houston ISD has undergone several big changes in the 2024-25 school year, including updates to the district’s bus routes, academic calendar and teacher pay. Among the largest changes implemented since the beginning of the school year include alterations to bus routes and pickup points for roughly 3,000 students enrolled in the district's school choice program. view article

Leander ISD is requesting community feedback to determine where to provide bus services for students living within two miles of campus. Parents and community members can submit their input on hazardous bus routes through an online form until Jan. 21. view article

Michael Richardson speaks with Tyler ISD Superintendent Dr. Marty Crawford about the approved school year calendar, district vehicle purchases, and renovations coming to the A.T. Stewart Campus. view article

Two Midland ISD employees were taken to the hospital following a school bus accident this morning at South County Road 1232, according to the school district. view article

According to Aaron Hood, Superintendent of Robert Lee ISD, a school bus carrying the girls varsity basketball team was involved in a major collision with a truck Saturday. The team was returning from a basketball tournament hosted by Borden ISD. view article

The national bus driver shortage continues to grow, and here at home, some school districts are suffering as a result. It’s a growing issue that’s going round and round. “It’s not just our district,” Bowie ISD Transportation Supervisor Cory Hickey said. “It’s every district around that I’ve talked to.” view article

Willis ISD increased its pay for all bus drivers, which will go into effect Jan. 6, district officials announced at the board of trustees’ Dec. 11 meeting. The increase of $1.25 an hour comes after WISD lost some bus drivers due to better pay offers from nearby school districts, such as Conroe ISD at $19.50 per hour and Montgomery ISD at $20.20 per hour, Director of Communications Jamie Fails said. view article

Two Cleveland ISD school buses crashed into each other Wednesday morning, sending nearly 20 students to the hospital. We’re told it happened on Hwy 105 and Hwy 321 near Cleveland Middle School. It’s unclear how the accident transpired, but we’re told a total of 17 students were hospitalized as a precaution and treated for injuries. view article

Newly released video shows a man assaulting a Richardson ISD bus driver in front of a bus full of children. view article

If anyone could clone themselves it would be school bus drivers like Rufus Huckabee in Fort Worth ISD. His job is becoming harder for all the wrong reasons, like fewer drivers. "There's usually a need since COVID, I think everything took a hit," said Huckabee. There are more students, more special programs and classes that require kids to be bused to different buildings and few bus drivers to do it. Many of the drivers they do have aren't showing up for work. It's gotten so bad teachers have pleaded not just with their principals, but showed up repeatedly at the school board, begging for help. view article

The Department of Public Safety has confirmed that a car sideswiped a Groesbeck ISD school bus near Thornton Wednesday morning, but no students were hurt. DPS Sgt Ryan Howard said it happened about 7:15 a.m. on State Highway 14 just south of the Thornton city limits. The preliminary investigation determined that a Chevrolet passenger car traveling southbound drove onto the wrong side of the roadway and sideswiped the bus. view article

Two students were on board a Dallas ISD school bus when it was hit by another vehicle. The crash happened on Northwest Highway and Sunland Street around 4 p.m. Dallas ISD says the two students on the bus were not hurt, Dallas Fire-Rescue says a total of four vehicles were involved in the crash but did not release specifics. view article

Widyan Younes stood in the parking lot of the Capital of Texas Zoo in Bastrop County just after lunch on a crisp spring afternoon in March, watching her 4-year-old daughter and a gaggle of happy, sleepy prekindergarten students step aboard a school bus bound for Buda's Tom Green Elementary School.  view article

Cy-Fair ISD bus drivers and other transportation staff will soon see a pay raise as the district attempts to recruit and retain drivers. At the Nov. 11 board meeting, trustees approved raising the starting pay rate for drivers from $19.19 an hour to $23 an hour in a 6-0 vote. view article

According to a Facebook post by the Lakeside City Volunteer Fire Department, they were called to US Hwy 281 for a school bus on fire. Shortly before midnight on Friday, November 8, 2024, the Holliday Eagles football team was headed home from their game in Jacksboro, read the post. view article

An Alvin ISD school bus flipped on its side during a crash on Wednesday morning. The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. Two middle school students and the driver were on board at the time, but fortunately, there were no reported injuries, according to Alvin ISD. view article

Three high school cheerleaders and one adult were hospitalized following a crash involving eight vehicles, including a school bus, on US-59 Sunday morning. Over 30 Lufkin ISD students and several adults were on the bus when it crashed just before 11:50 a.m. on US 59 near the Fannin Street exit. The bus carried the district's cheerleading team to a competition in Rosenberg, but after the crash, the team rerouted and returned to Lufkin. view article

Three Lufkin ISD students were among the four people taken to the hospital after an eight-vehicle crash in Houston on Sunday morning, officials say. The crash happened just after 10:30 a.m. on southbound US-59 under SH-288. view article

A Georgetown ISD bus was hit by a car that ran a stop sign Monday afternoon. It happened on Sycamore Street and Greenside Lane, near The Delaney at Georgetown Village. view article

The Georgetown Independent School District said no students were injured in a crash involving a GISD school bus Monday afternoon. “It appears a vehicle ran a stop sign and hit the bus,” the district said. view article

Wednesday morning, the United Independent School District became the first Texas school district to launch an AI-led pilot program in collaboration with Bus Patrol to improve student safety. view article

Texas school districts are authorized to provide public school transportation. For those that do, motor vehicle accidents are fertile ground for claims against school districts. School districts may benefit from taking the time to review their risk management approach to the provision of transportation services.

Across the nation, school districts are having a hard time keeping and hiring bus drivers. One local school district, Comal ISD, is becoming greatly effected. As one of the fastest growing and largest districts in the San Antonio area, the district covers over 500 square miles in five different counties with over 27,000 students attending. view article

Some Brenham ISD parents are concerned about the safety of their children aboard school buses, while the district struggles to find people to drive them. Overcrowding and longer run times for some buses has parents worried and debating whether their children should be using school transportation. One parent, Cassi Harrison, has pulled her three children off after she says her daughter had to sit on the floor of her elementary school bus, which had students from two bus routes. Harrison says the safety of the children needs to be addressed. view article

A driver was shot before crashing into a Spring ISD school bus Tuesday morning in north Harris County, officials say. This happened on FM 1960 near Rolling Creek just before 7:30 a.m. Deputies are in the 1600 block of FM 1960, where a @SpringISD bus has crashed with another vehicle. The driver of that vehicle has a gunshot wound. No reports of injuries to students. view article

After four days of frustration over Houston ISD’s new transportation system, which parents widely have derided, Amanda Marshall wanted to know exactly how her 10-year-old son, Henry, was getting to his magnet school. view article

Two Austin ISD buses were involved in a crash in southeast Austin on Wednesday morning, and both police and the district say no injuries have been reported. view article

Several Conroe ISD elementary school students had minor injuries after a car slammed into their school bus. School officials said 58 students from Ford Elementary were on board at the time of the incident this morning. view article

An Abilene ISD bus driver was assaulted Monday morning. Police reports say the driver was transporting students back to the Abilene State Supported Living Center when one of the students refused to stay in his seat. The driver pulled over when he wouldn't sit down as requested, and after she stopped the bus, "the student began punching and kicking the bus driver," according to the reports. view article

The Pottsboro Independent School District’s board of trustees discussed a resolution to receive funding for a service they already provide during their regular meeting earlier this week. PISD Superintendent Kevin Matthews explained that Texas law does not provide transportation funding to school districts if the district is transporting students that live within two miles of the schools they attend, unless those areas are dangerous for students to cross. In this situation, that is the case, Matthews said. The board identified five areas they qualified as hazardous: Highway 289, Highway 120, FM 996, FM 1417 and Cardinal Lane. - See more at: http://heralddemocrat.com/news/schools/pottsboro-isd-board-identifies-dangerous-roads-stresses-student-safety#sthash.NCQqqUs4.dpuf view article

Humble Independent School District is hiring bus drivers for the 2015-2016 school year. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply online or visit a weekly job fair, held every Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1703 Wilson Rd, Humble, Texas, 77396. Humble ISD offers paid training to qualified applicants.

Heavy rain and high water pushed a Northwest Independent School District bus off the road, where it became stuck Thursday morning, according to authorities. The bus was stopped at a red light on Texas 114 near Farm-to-Market Road 156 when swift water in a heavy rainstorm overtook the road and pushed the bus onto the shoulder, according to Emily Conklin, the district's communications director. view article

A student from Parker Intermediate School was struck by a vehicle as he was getting on his school bus Monday morning in north Harris County. view article

Frisco ISD has pulled four Blue Bird school buses from its fleet as a precaution after a bus that had been in service for five days caught fire on Tuesday. No one was injured. Representatives from manufacturer Blue Bird and dealer Rush Bus Center met with district staff Wednesday to view the burned bus and the four others. view article