{"id":124174,"date":"2026-02-05T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:58:08","slug":"electric-school-bus-mandate-approaches-for-new-york-state-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124174\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric School Bus Mandate Approaches for New York State | Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Electric School Bus Mandate Approaches for New York State\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6984e29dc4636.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; School districts across New York are preparing for a major change as a new mandate will require all buses purchased starting in 2027 to be electric.<\/p>\n<p>During a transportation hearing in Albany, the head of the New York City Mass Transit Authority shared concerns about the performance of electric buses.<\/p>\n<p>Janno Lieber, chairman and CEO of the NYC MTA, said, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a cautionary note, which is that the electric buses about 60 altogether that we&#8217;ve received so far, have been underperforming in terms of their breakdown frequency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lieber said, &#8220;We are buying some more low-emissions alternative technologies while the electric bus industry starts to get itself under control because they are not functioning well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Whitesboro School District plans to file for a two-year extension this month.<\/p>\n<p>The extension would give them more time before they must purchase only electric buses, but it would also shorten the timeline to convert their entire fleet to electric by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; School districts across New York are preparing for a major change as a new mandate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13497,1209,54112,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-124174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bus","tag-buses","tag-electric-bus","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}