Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White will receive the "Friend of Education" award from the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools (IARSS) during a July 12 annual banquet.

Daimler Trucks North America announced that Thomas Built Buses is joining other school bus manufacturers in issuing two related NHTSA recalls of Specialty Manufacturing, Inc. (SMI), roof hatches that do not comply with FMVSS 217.

The National Association for Pupil Transportation announced that Pamela K. Layral is the 29th recipient in North America to complete the association's Special Needs Transportation Training Program.

John Maxwell of Dallas Center-Grimes Schools located about 25 miles west of Des Moines won Iowa's "Best of the Best Technician's Training & Competition" on June 15 and is headed to Raleigh, N.C., this fall to go head to head with his counterparts from across the nation.

Navistar announced that subsidiary IC Bus is recalling 158 CE Series conventional school buses to fix interior lower linings that fail to meet FMVSS 221.