{"id":645860,"date":"2026-05-03T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:40:10","slug":"province-faces-6-5-million-jump-in-school-bus-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645860\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Faces $6.5-Million Jump in School Bus Tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/school-bus-stock-pic-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Faces $6.5-Million Jump in School Bus Tenders\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The cost of getting students to and from school has increased by some 10 per cent for budget 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>Contracts and tenders for the province\u2019s school bus system jumped from $53.5-million to $60-million from the last budget, primarily due to changes in school bus contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Minister Barry Petten says new contracts and tenders were primarily to blame for the $6.5-million dollar jump.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the largest jump since budget 2024 when costs went up by over $8-million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The cost of getting students to and from school has increased by some 10 per cent for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-645860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}