School buses generally don't have seat belts because they're designed with safety in mind. Using a concept called "compartmentalization," bus seats are set close together and have high backs made ...

“They should have a seating chart in the districts which each providing the seating chart if they have those.”APS spokeswoman Monica Armenta says the school district does have assigned seats ...

While only six states require seat belts on school buses -- California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas -- nonprofit organizations have for years encouraged the use of seat ...

School officials add reserve funds that will cover that loss. In a survey conducted by OCPS, Jenkins said that out of 56,600 parents, 38% wanted to see in person school return for the next school ...

Impassioned debates about safety tend to follow every deadly wreck involving a school bus – such as Thursday’s tragedy in Morris County, New Jersey.

Even without seat belts, school buses are 70 times safer than other forms of transportation, according to the NHTSA. New York uses more school buses than any other state in the union, ...

Districts must prioritize elementary schools, when allocating buses with seat belts. A newer 2018 law requires all school buses to have seat belts by 2035. Florida. Since 2001, ...

Ashley Brown, 16, and Alicia Bonura, 18, both of Beaumont, Texas, died March 29, 2006. They were on a bus carrying their West Brook High School soccer team when it overturned near Devers, Texas ...

LISA STARK: But most school districts have decided against adding seat belts. In Montgomery County, Maryland, buses carry 100,000 students a day, and there has never been an accident in which a ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — School districts nationwide puzzling over how to safely educate children during a pandemic have a more immediate challenge — getting 26 million bus-riding students there ...

Few states require seat belts on school buses and South Carolina isn’t among them. Only eight states, including Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas ...