Education Quiet since Sep 10 Updated Sep 10, 2026
The school bus shortage
NYC's Office of Pupil Transportation has not secured enough bus vendors for the Sept. 10 start of school, leaving roughly 2,000 students, most of them children with disabilities, without an assigned bus route. A bus route written into a student's IEP is a legally required service, and the Education Department says it will cover gaps with prepaid rideshares until routes exist. The fight is whether the department routes every student in time and how long the gap lasts for students who legally require busing.
The story so far
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Sep 10, 2026 Latest
New York City schools opened Thursday with yellow bus shortages still unresolved, and 43% of the roughly 150,000 students who depend on school buses are students with disabilities, Chalkbeat reported.
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Sep 7, 2026
NYC's Office of Pupil Transportation told principals it had not secured enough bus vendors for the school year, leaving roughly 2,000 students, most or all of them children with disabilities, without an assigned bus vendor ahead of the Sept. 10 first day, Gothamist reported, citing a letter shared by Advocates for Children of New York. The Education Department said it would cover gaps with prepaid rideshares until routes are established, and spokesperson Dominique Ellison said the vast majority of the system's 150,000 bused students will be routed by the first day.
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