Two Bus Mishaps In First Week Of School
Another five year old child went missing. This was in the Plano School District on Monday. Tywarna Mitchell says her five year old daughter Jordyn was put on a school bus to go home. That wasn’t...
View ArticleFather Threatens Daughter's Bullies
A central Florida Dad enraged that his daughter was bullied on the school bus took matters into his own hands – see the video after the jump.He boarded the bus screaming and threatening the alleged...
View ArticleDenton ISD School Implements Bus Monitoring Program
DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – An innovative new system that tracks a student’s bus ridership down to the second they board or get off the bus was implemented Wednesday at one Denton ISD school. EP Rayzor is...
View Article7-Year-Old Hit By Truck After Getting Off School Bus
KAUFMAN (CBSDFW.COM) – A 7-year-old Kaufman County boy is dead after he was hit by a truck that illegally passed a school bus Thursday afternoon. The boy was getting off a Kaufman ISD school bus on...
View Article2nd Child In 6 Months Left On Plano ISD Bus
PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – For the second time this school year a Plano ISD student has been left on a bus instead of being dropped off at school. The child was found Thursday afternoon at the district’s bus...
View ArticleSchool Bus Ads Become Popular Amid Budget Woes
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A lot of North Texas school districts fighting budget shortfalls are enthusiastically getting on board with a plan to sell ads on the side of buses. The plan to sell ads on the...
View ArticleDistricts Warming Up To Idea Of School Bus Ads
DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM/KRLD) – In the past, some school districts met the idea of putting ads on local school buses with a lot of questions and opposition. Now, as a number of North Texas districts...
View ArticleLocal School Bus Crash Sends Students To Hospital
JOHNSON COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – There were some scary moments this morning for students and parents in the Venus Independent School District. Around 7:00 a.m. reports started coming in about a school bus...
View Article6 Students Taken To Hospital After School Bus Crash
FORT WORTH (AP) – Six children were taken to the hospital after a Fort Worth Independent School District bus was involved in a crash with a car. Fort Worth ISD spokesman Clint Bond says the bus was on...
View ArticleNorth Texas School Districts Cutting Bus Service
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - State lawmakers in Austin remain deadlocked on education funding, but school districts are running out of time, and must make decisions on spending – chopping budgets just to...
View ArticleKeller ISD Ready To Park Buses & Cut Teachers
KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) - The school buses that are now sitting parked in Keller for the summer will most likely stay that way in the fall. Keller Independent School District board president Kevin...
View ArticleKeller ISD Approves Pay-To-Ride School Bus Program
KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) – The Keller ISD school board approved a plan Monday night to make parents pay for students who wish to ride the bus. Under the plan, parents or guardians will pay $185 a semester...
View ArticleKeller ISD Parents Consider Shuttle Services Instead Of School Buses
KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) – Third-party transportation services are reporting an increase in demand just one day after Keller ISD became the first school district in the state to charge parents a flat rate...
View Article‘Kid Taxis’ Supplanting Bus Service For Some Parents
KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) – Thousands of students start school Monday. But some of their parents are still thinking of ways to get them to class. Due to state funding cuts, Northwest ISD eliminated some...
View ArticleKeller ISD’s Pay-To-Ride Bus Program Begins
KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) - Monday is the first day back to school for most students across North Texas, and the first day that many school districts are having to deal with less money. Budget cuts have led...
View Article5 Students, Driver Hospitalized After Corsicana School Bus Crash
A crashed Corsicana school bus is pulled upright following a crash. (Photo credit Ron Farmer, Corsicana Daily Sun) CORSICANA (AP) – Authorities say a collision between a small school bus and an SUV has...
View Article5-Year-Old’s Family Wants Answers After School Bus Beating
update 12/13 5:50 p.m. – Poolville ISD tells CBS 11 they have looked into the incident and have taken appropriate disciplinary action. POOLVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – The family of a 5-year-old boy who says...
View ArticleIrving Bus Driver Deliberately Drives Wrong Way On Service Road
This picture was snapped of a school bus going the wrong way on the service road of eastbound Highway 183 in Irving, during morning rush hour on March 5. (credit: Paul Mann/CBSDFW.com) IRVING...
View ArticleFort Worth ISD School Bus Crashes Into Parked Truck
(credit: Chuck Schechner/KRLD NewsRadio 1080) FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A school bus was a block away from dropping off students at Polytechnic High School when it slammed into a parked vehicle. Two...
View ArticleCrowley ISD Bus Driver Fired For Ordering 30 Kids Off Bus
CROWLEY (CBSDFW.COM) – A Crowley Independent School District bus driver was fired Tuesday for ordering 30 children to walk home after the bus broke down last week. District officials say the children...
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