{"id":249293,"date":"2026-07-22T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249293\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:35:10","slug":"pennsylvania-invests-more-than-1-1m-to-train-new-school-bus-drivers-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249293\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania invests more than $1.1M to train new school bus drivers \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced an investment of more than $1.1 million in grants to train more than 430 new school bus drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This funding will support 26 schools and transportation providers across 19 Pennsylvania counties, aiming to enhance school transportation safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This marks the administration\u2019s second investment in school bus safety this year, funded through PennDOT\u2019s School Bus Safety Grant Program. The program aims to increase school bus safety for students and communities throughout Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pennsylvania Department Secretary Mike Carroll of Transportation (PennDOT), emphasized the importance of the investment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWith his latest budget, Governor Shapiro continues to make historic investments in education and our children\u2019s future. Making sure we have enough qualified drivers to get students to and from school safely and reliably advances that investment. This funding gives schools and communities the support they need to ensure students can focus on learning and achieve success,\u201d Caroll said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Funding for the School Bus Safety Grant Program originates, in part, from automated violations of the Pennsylvania School Bus Stopping Law. This law mandates a $300 fine for violations, with $25 of each fine allocated to the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Grants can be used for education, training and other costs associated with individuals obtaining commercial learner\u2019s permits, commercial driver\u2019s licenses or school bus endorsements for driving school buses in Pennsylvania. The grants also support efforts to promote and increase overall school bus safety, education and training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Below is a list of grant awards in our area:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County:<\/p>\n<p>ABC Transit Inc., $75,000Deer Lakes School District $17,000Sun Coach Lines LLC, $27,100<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Beaver County:<\/p>\n<p>Hopewell Area School District: $15,186<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Butler County:<\/p>\n<p>ABC Transit Inc., $57,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Indiana County:<\/p>\n<p>Woodridge Transit LLC, $50,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Mercer County:<\/p>\n<p>AC-School Services Inc., $30,000Watsons Inc., $14,700<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced an investment of more than $1.1 million in grants to train more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7894,7472,4632,9375,734,9376,227,9377,2724,9378,7358,3519,9379,9380,2726,9381,9382,497,4369,2922,9383,8573,5541,28,30,29,9384,9385,5858,9386,9387,5607,7363,521,9388,9389,9390,5378,9391,3668,9392,6167,2155,4491,6967,9393,5384,9394],"class_list":["post-249293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-august","tag-back","tag-bus","tag-caution","tag-children","tag-drive","tag-education","tag-elementary","tag-fall","tag-flashers","tag-flashing","tag-high","tag-integration","tag-junior","tag-kids","tag-kindergarten","tag-learn","tag-learning","tag-lights","tag-lot","tag-middle","tag-parked","tag-parking","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pick-up","tag-preschool","tag-public","tag-reflection","tag-ride","tag-route","tag-safety","tag-school","tag-schoolbus","tag-september","tag-shiny","tag-sign","tag-stop","tag-summer","tag-to","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-vehicle","tag-windows","tag-yellow","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}