The 2012-2013 school year is the last for Bruce Little as the senior transportation consultant for the Colorado State Department of Education (CDE), the 25-year industry veteran announced this month.

David Huff, the retired director of Traffic Education Programs at the Montana Office of Public Instruction and a former state director of student transportation, passed away on Friday after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 62.

When special needs transportation consultant Cheryl Wolf visited an Indiana school district in August to provide training on emergency bus evacuation drills, she heard the sound of crickets in response.

Larry Bluthardt, Kansas' state director of pupil transportation for the past two decades, retired in mid-July citing health reasons.