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

Safety concerns are growing for Cy-Fair ISD parents after three students were hit in separate auto-pedestrian crashes last week while walking or biking to school. The incidents come after the district cut several school bus routes at the beginning of the school year due to a budget deficit. Back in August, ABC13 reported that the district cut 79 bus routes, which saved them $4.8 million and equates to about 75 teacher positions. District officials said the goal was for the cuts not to be felt in the classroom, although some parents said it's put them in difficult predicaments. view article

Cy-Fair ISD parents are demanding answers after at least two students were hit by cars on the way to school. According to letters to parents, obtained by KPRC 2′s Rilwan Balogun, the incidents happened on two separate occasions with different students but were a day apart. view article

Iola ISD said it was looking into “public concerns” of an “inappropriate remark” made by an elementary student on a school bus. The school district said it notified the school resource officer and local law enforcement. In a statement from Iola Superintendent Jeff Dyer shared with KBTX, he said, “The student in question did not possess a firearm or any other prohibited object. There was never any immediate threat to the safety or security of our students or the community.” view article

Cy-Fair ISD parents are demanding a change to bus routes after three students were hit by vehicles last week. This comes a couple of months after the district eliminated nearly 80 bus routes due to budget cuts. Now, families are demanding accountability and calling the injuries unacceptable. The bus routes cut impacted students who live a mile or two miles away from their school. view article

A train stalling in Hallsville blocked traffic Friday. All three Hallsville railroad crossings are blocked, according to a social media post from Hallsville ISD. They said parents will be informed about changing bus schedules. view article

A Columbia-Brazoria Independent School District bus driver received a citation for disregarding a construction flagger’s stop sign following a collision between a school bus and a dump truck on Thursday morning. According to Columbia-Brazoria ISD, the bus driver has been released from the hospital, and the student is expected to be discharged later Friday. view article

An elementary school student is recovering at a Houston hospital after being struck by a Barber Hill Independent School District bus Thursday morning, according to the district. The crash happened at 7:40 a.m., just before school, on Sapphire Lagoon Street in the Joseph’s Cove subdivision. view article

Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Columbia-Brazoria ISD school bus. A student and the bus driver were transported to area hospitals via LifeFlight, according to the school district. SkyEye flew over the scene on Highway 36 at Country Road 353 on Thursday morning. Video shows the aftermath of what appears to be a crash between a school bus and a dump truck. view article

Bryan police arrested a Bryan ISD bus driver Thursday morning for driving intoxicated while transporting 24 students younger than the age of 15. Police responded to a crash around Lakeview Street and Fairway Drive and determined the school bus was “involved in a minor accident with a parked, unoccupied vehicle.” Students were on the bus during the crash, but police say none were injured. view article

Dallas police announced an arrest for an assault on a Richardson ISD bus driver. The assault happened on Skillman Street just north of 635 more than seven months ago, but police were recently able to identify the alleged attacker through social media. Danny Senkow, a school bus driver of seven years, never expected that driving elementary school students would make him fear for his life. But that is what happened on Feb. 1. view article

Bryan police arrested a Bryan ISD bus driver Thursday morning for driving intoxicated while transporting students. Police responded to a crash around Lakeview Street and Fairway Drive and determined the school bus was “involved in a minor accident with a parked, unoccupied vehicle.” Students were on the bus during the crash, but police say none were injured. view article

A Fort Bend ISD school bus was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the Chasewood area of Houston Wednesday morning. This is at Fondren at Chasewind just west of the Fort Bend Tollroad. Aerial views from Air 11 did show that there were children on the bus at the time of the crash. A second vehicle appears to been partially pinned under the school bus. view article

Abilene ISD bus routes are being affected by a statewide driver shortage, leaving parents scrambling to get their children to school. The past week, at least a couple of bus routes have been canceled last minute at multiple campuses both before and after school. view article

A72-year-old Donna man was killed Wednesday morning after being hit by a Weslaco ISD school bus. In a news release, the Texas Department of Public Safety said the fatal crash happened at approximately 6:50 a.m. on Hernandez Road west of FM 493 north of Mile 11 in Donna. view article

In an email sent to MySA, a district spokesperson with Southside ISD said no students were injured in the bus crash. The crash happened around 7:50 a.m. The spokesperson also notes that four high school students were on board but were taken to school after the crash was cleared within minutes. view article

Two Southwest ISD school buses were involved in a minor crash on the city's West side. The crash happened around 3 pm near Marbach Road and Loop 1604. According to the San Antonio Police Department, two fully occupied school buses were driving at a low speed when they collided. No injuries were reported and no students were transported to the hospital. view article

An Austin woman was arrested on a DWI charge Friday in connection with an AISD school bus crash involving dozens of band members. 23-year-old Fallon Ramos was arrested for driving while intoxicated. The crash happened Thursday night in Central Austin near House Park Athletic Stadium. Multiple 911 calls came in after two Austin ISD buses and a sedan crashed in the 2900 block of North Lamar Boulevard around 11:30 p.m. The driver of the sedan was taken to the hospital and a bus driver and some McCallum High School band students were treated at the scene. view article

A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized after being left alone on a hot school bus for seven hours Tuesday, NBC5 reported. The Dallas ISD pre-K student was not taken off the bus at Clinton P. Russell Elementary School and stayed strapped in her seat in heat over 90 degrees, according to KXAS-TV. view article

A Spring Branch ISD school bus was involved in a crash in northwest Houston Thursday. HPD says the crash involved two vehicles, including the bus. It happened in the 1400 block of Silber Road at Westview around 3:55 p.m. view article

During a meeting before the school year began, Bastrop Independent School District bus drivers said they were told by their transportation company to no longer help students in case of a medical emergency. “She said that we weren’t allowed to do CPR. We weren’t allowed to administer medications,” said one Bastrop ISD bus driver, who didn’t want to share their identity. view article

The parents of a preschool student say they have seen video from the Dallas ISD bus with their non-verbal autistic daughter was left alone for hours. Keturah Crockett said the district allowed she and her husband an opportunity to view video from the bus on Tuesday when a bus driver ended their shift without realizing a child was still aboard. view article

Six people were injured, including one with potentially serious injuries, in a crash involving an Austin ISD bus overnight. Just after 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Austin-Travis County EMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to the two-vehicle collision at the intersection of North Lamar Boulevard and San Gabriel Street. view article

A driver may have run a red light before hitting a Spring Branch ISD bus and causing it to flip, police said on Thursday. Spring Branch ISD police say the bus was traveling eastbound on Westview at about 3:50 p.m. when a Toyota Corolla traveling southbound on Silber hit it at a high rate of speed. view article

The parents of a Dallas ISD preschooler are outraged that their 4-year-old was left alone on a hot school bus for hours. "I depended on them. I trusted them with my child and they dropped the ball. I’m just thankful I still have her," said Robert Pruitt. Pruitt's 4-year-old daughter Araiya is a preschool student at Clinton P. Russell Elementary School in Dallas ISD. view article

Parents of a Dallas ISD preschooler say they’re traumatized and want answers on how their 4-year-old daughter was left alone on a school bus for hours. Instead of arriving at school, the family says the child ended up miles away and left unattended in 95-degree heat. “She could have lost her life,” Keturah Crockett said about her daughter. view article

A slammed school pickup line is a common sight nowadays in the Medina Valley Independent School District. The school district’s current student enrollment is 9,525. That’s just about 700 more students than MVISD had in classrooms last year. Medina Valley is a historically rural area, but population growth has caused big changes. And this school year, it’s causing transportation problems. “It’s very frustrating,” Jennifer Anderson, an MVISD mom, said. “I did not expect to run into what I have run into.” view article