Oklahoma this spring changed its minimum specifications for all new route school bus purchases to include LEDs for all lighting and lamps.

Rona Sable Weber, who served as a federal student transportation lobbyist in Washington, D.C., for 12 years, will return to the National School Transportation Association later this month as the organization's new executive director.

A new law went into effect in Alabama that will prohibit hiring new school bus drivers in the state unless applicants meet a lengthy list of physical requirements.

Katy Independent School District outside of Houston announced it is cutting transportation for 6,600 students next school year, but unlike similar moves across the country, the decision was not motivated by budget cuts.