May 24, 2013

Edition: U.S.

School Buses

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Teen Asks Girl To Prom, Gets Smacked By Tree (PHOTOS)

Posted 01.22.2013 | Teen

Read More: Teen Injuries, Prom Date, Prom 2013, Imgur, Young Love, School Buses, Prom, Prom Stories, High-School-Love-Story, Prom Proposals, High School News, Promposal, Prom-Prep, Teen News

This teen's prom-posal gave a whole new meaning to the saying "love hurts." One high school senior from Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Ill...

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School Bus Strike, Mayoral Control and Girls Who Code on Yetta Kurland LIVE!

Yetta Kurland | Posted 03.22.2013 | Gay Voices

This week I spoke with Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union on the city's first school bus strike since 1979.

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Union-busting, Bloomberg-Style

Alan Singer | Posted 03.20.2013 | New York

Read More: Public Schools, Education, Dennis Walcott, Union Busting, Unions, Michael Bloomberg, School Buses, Bloomberg Education, Bloomberg Bus, Bloomberg Strike, New York News

The dispute between New York City and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 is the result of a decision by the Bloomberg administration to allow competitive bidding for school bus contracts. But lower bids would mean no job security for current school bus drivers.

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City's Public School Buses Were Involved In 1,700 Accidents Last Year

dnainfo.com | (DNAinfo/Mike Miguez) | Posted 12.10.2012 | New York

Read More: New York City Schools, Nyc School Bus Accidents, New York City Education, Nyc School Buses, NYC Schools, School Buses, New York News

NEW YORK CITY -- New York City school buses were involved in 1,700 accidents last year -- an average of nearly five per day, DNAinfo.com New York has...

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School Bus Driver Asks Student To Leave Bus, Bring Her McDonald's Mustard Packets

Posted 09.21.2012 | Home

Read More: Raymore, Raymore-Peculiar School District, Mustard Packets, Missouri Schools, School Bus Driver, Mustard, Bus Driver Suspended, School Buses, School Busing, Missouri, McDonald's, Highway 58, School Bus Drivers, Mcdonalds, Home News

A Missouri bus driver has been suspended after she asked a student to exit the school bus and retrieve mustard packets from the McDonald’s off of Hi...

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Bullied Bus Monitor Receives Her $700,000 Check

AP | Posted 09.12.2012 | Home

TORONTO -- A New York bus monitor who was relentlessly bullied by four middle school students has received more than $700,000 raised by a Canadian man...

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Bullies Pull Dangerous Prank On Girl While Waiting For School Bus

Posted 09.07.2012 | Home

Read More: Video, Florida Schools, School Bus Attendant, School Bus Safety, Bullying, Volusia County Schools, School Buses, Melanie Conn, Ormund Beach, School Bus Bullying, Girl Bullied, School Bullying, Home News

A Florida school district is looking into an incident in which 13-year-old Melanie Conn was bound in plastic wrap by two of her peers while waiting fo...

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School Bus Driver Drops 4-Year-Old At Homeless Shelter

Posted 10.30.2012 | Home

LadyOurlove McInnis, a Minneapolis 4-year-old, was dropped off at a homeless shelter -- miles from her home -- after her first day of school Wednesday...

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Karen Klein Donation Campaign Ends Tonight

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 07.23.2012 | Home

The donation campaign for Karen Klein, the 68-year-old bullied bus monitor from the Greece School District in Greece, N.Y., ended Friday, according to...

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Bullied School Bus Monitor 'Fine' With Bully Punishment

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 08.30.2012 | Home

Read More: Karen Klein Bullying, Video, School Bus Safety, School Buses, Greece New York, New York Schools, Karen Klein Bullying Video, Karen Klein, School Bus Bullying, School Bullying, Home News

NEW YORK -- The upstate New York school bus monitor who was bullied by four seventh-graders says she's satisfied that they're being suspended for a ye...

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Karen Klein Bullies Receive Death Threats

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 06.23.2012 | Home

Karen Klein has said she doesn't want serious punishments levied upon the boys who bullied her on a school bus, but despite her calls for restraint, a...

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7-Year-Old Kicked Off School Bus, Forced To Wander Alone

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.30.2012 | Home

Amber Hobdy, a mother from Eagle Mountain, Utah, is outraged after her 7-year-daughter Kya was allegedly kicked off a school bus in an unfamiliar neig...

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The Magically Green School Bus

Jonny Cohen | Posted 07.09.2012 | Teen

One day in seventh grade, I noticed the inefficient design of school buses. Then it hit me! Why not build a shield to retrofit buses by redirecting the airflow to decrease drag and increase gas mileage?

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Broke State Could Soon Charge For School Bus Rides

Posted 04.25.2012 | Chicago

As school districts statewide complain about the mounting costs of transporting their students, the Illinois State Board of Education could soon allow...

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School Bus Accidents in the News: Are Your Children Safe?

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 05.15.2012 | Parents

Read More: Seat Belts, School Bus Safety, School Bus Accident, School Buses, School Bus Crash, Seat Belt Laws, Schools, Parents News

Parents have a right to expect that when they put their children on the school bus in the morning, they will get to and from school safely.

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38 Children Injured In Washington School Bus Rollover

AP | SHANNON DININNY | Posted 05.12.2012 | Home

YAKIMA, Wash. — A school bus overturned Monday morning on a central Washington highway, injuring dozens of children, including three seriously, ...

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Bus Driver Instructed Girl To Beat 9-Year-Old While She Restrained Him

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.06.2012 | Home

Read More: Video, School Bus Driver, Bullying, School Buses, School Bus Security Footage, School Bus Crime, Bus Drivers, School Bus Violence, School Bus Drivers, Home News

Brenda Abdul-Mateen, a Columbus City Schools bus driver in Ohio, held a 9-year-old boy's arms and told a girl to beat him up on her school bus, police...

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Student Falls Out Of School Bus, Runs After It

Posted 03.05.2012 | Home

Read More: School Commute, Video, Student Falls Out of School Bus, China Schools, To-School Commute, School Buses, Chinese Schools, School Bus, School Transit, Home News

Mondays, right? No one knows better than this poor kid in China. Watch as the unsuspecting student falls out the back of the moving bus, and then p...

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3 Still In Critical Condition After Fatal New Jersey School Bus Crash

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 04.18.2012 | Home

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. — The National Transportation Safety Board is examining how seat belt use factored into the New Jersey school bus crash that ...

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Driver Saves 6 From Flame-Engulfed School Bus

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.10.2012 | Home

Read More: Video, Bus Fire, School Bus Driver, School Bus Emergency, School Bus Fire, School Buses, School Bus, Fire, School Bus Drivers, Home News

Lindora Richardson, a 37-year-old school bus driver, managed to save six children before her bus erupted into flames yesterday in Charlotte, N.C., CNN...

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SHOCK: 6th Grader Brutally Beaten While Peers Videotape, Cheer

Posted 03.23.2012 | Home

Troubling footage has surfaced of a student with autism being brutally beaten to the ground at his Maryland school bus stop while his peers stood by t...

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Why One Mother Hates the School Bus Ride

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 03.13.2012 | Parents

Read More: Stress, Public Schools, Teasing, Education, Bullying, School Buses, Teens, Mommybloggers, Psychology, Tweens, Parenting, Parents News

The school bus is one of the places that kids get teased the most and I believe that this is partly due to the older kids having so much unsupervised access to the younger kids.

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Girl Left Unconscious On School Bus After Beating

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.02.2012 | Home

Read More: Video, Middle Schoolers, Violence in Schools, School Buses, Middle School Violence, Middle School, School Violence, School Bus Violence, Home News

A 13-year-old female student was beaten so badly by seven students between the ages of 12 and 15 that she was left unconscious on the school bus Frida...

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Bus Drive Allegedly Uses School Bus As Weapon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.16.2011 | Home

Read More: Video, School Commute, School Bus Safety, School Bus Driver, Bus Driver, School Buses, School Bus Crash, Bus Safety, Washington Post, Bus Crash, Bus as Weapon, Bus Drivers, School Bus Drivers, Home News

Theresa P. Douglas, 40, was arrested Wednesday and charged with many counts of assault in Maryland after she drove a school bus into a trailer in the ...

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School Bus Driver Allegedly Falls Asleep At Wheel On Highway

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.07.2011 | Home

Read More: Drunk School Bus Driver, School Bus Crash, Video, School Bus, Falling-Asleep-at-the-Wheel, School Bus Driver, Bus Drivers, School Buses, Home News

After reportedly falling asleep while driving a school bus full of kids down a highway in Tacoma, Wash., the 65-year-old driver has been put on admini...

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