{"id":205757,"date":"2026-03-05T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205757\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:54:49","slug":"three-county-school-districts-earn-clean-energy-bus-grants-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205757\/","title":{"rendered":"Three county school districts earn clean energy bus grants \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state has awarded nearly $44 million from the Michigan Department of Education Clean Bus Energy Grant program to 27 school districts. The program\u2019s final round is part of an effort designed to replace older, diesel school buses with cleaner ones.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland County schools earning funding:<\/p>\n<p>Pontiac School District $3,620,609<\/p>\n<p>Madison Public Schools $1,993,181<\/p>\n<p>Royal Oak Schools $4,450,005<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransitioning our school bus fleets to cleaner technologies is not just about replacing vehicles\u2014it\u2019s about building a mobility system that works for families and communities across Michigan,\u201d said Justine Johnson, Michigan\u2019s chief mobility officer. \u201cThrough the MI Future Mobility Plan 2.0, we are committed to ensuring that sustainable transportation solutions are accessible, reliable and equitable across urban, suburban and rural communities alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program has awarded $125 million to Michigan schools resulting in 322 electric and 54 propane school buses. The program has removed 376 diesel buses from operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state has awarded nearly $44 million from the Michigan Department of Education Clean Bus Energy Grant program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[95065,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-205757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-clean-energy-grant-royal-oak-madison","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}