Republican state lawmakers want to amend a portion of New York’s electric school bus mandate which requires electric bus fleets by 2035. They worry this will be too costly for districts. “If they want to buy them,

Now, Republican lawmakers are taking a different approach: pushing a bill to allow individual school districts to opt out of the zero-emission school bus requirements. An opt-out waiver submitted to state Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa would permanently exempt districts that are hesitant to accept the new mandate.

Lawmakers are pushing to provide school districts throughout New Mexico financial support during the upcoming legislative session to replace their diesel school buses with zero emission alternative fuel ones.

New developments in the state legislature could impact the future of electric school buses in New York. Republican lawmakers are advocating for a bill that would allow school districts to opt out of the upcoming electric school bus mandate.

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski said New York’s requirement that school districts adopt electric school buses by 2027 is an "unworkable and unaffordable" $20 billion mandate that should be delayed or scrapped.

Legislation has been proposed to enable school districts to submit a waiver to the commissioner of education, permitting them to officially opt out of specific zero-emission school bus requirements be

New York's public schools are struggling to afford the rising costs of the state's electric school bus mandate, according to a new report by a fiscal watchdog group. The analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy estimated that the mandate to convert buses for the state's 370 school districts to e-vehicles would cost