Funding Education Opportunity: School buses and changing transportation needs

Funding Education Opportunity: School buses and changing transportation needs

The yellow school bus has long been emblematic of public schooling nationwide. However, its role as many K-12 students’ primary mode of transportation is in decline.  The K-12 education landscape is markedly different today than it was in 1980, when more than 59% of students were transported at public expense. The latest federal data showed that this rate shrank by almost eight percentage points as of the 2018-19 school year. More recently, stat…