{"id":146876,"date":"2023-05-08T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtadministration.com\/?p=146876"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:21:21","slug":"these-states-are-leading-the-electric-school-bus-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtadministration.com\/these-states-are-leading-the-electric-school-bus-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"These states are leading the electric school bus movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus?” said Vice President Kamala Harris last year touting the administration’s initiative to provide zero-emissions transportation to school districts. Yet some communities aren’t buying it\u2014in the literal sense. Going electric can be rather expensive, but there are ways district leaders can cut costs.<\/p>\n

In October, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the investment<\/a> of nearly $1 billion into cleaner, safer school buses. The grant helps nearly 400 school districts to buy more than 2,400 school buses, 95% of which will be electric. But as far as priorities go, some states see zero-emissions transportation as a back-burner agenda item.<\/p>\n

A new report<\/a> from the nonprofit CALSTART, an organization that works with businesses and governments to develop clean, efficient transportation solutions, provides a snapshot of state-level efforts to leverage electric transportation in K12 school districts. According to the report, the dataset only includes electric school buses that are either:<\/p>\n