June 8, 2026

  The summer ahead means conference season (I love conferences, all that learning and mutual support). It also means extreme heat, which kills more people, surprisingly, than

Happy Earth Day. The first one was  in 1970, under a Republican president (my parents voted for him, twice), and led eight months later to the

The good news first. The federal Clean School Bus Program (CSBP), the one that has funded 8,700 electric school buses (ESBs) in 1,200 rural, urban and suburban

“We’re Being Damn Fools”
and the need to update our mental maps

I hope your back-to-school transition is going well. It coincides with the close of the conference season, and because I like conferences and writing about

What does safety mean for kids in the ICE era?

And who is riding the curl, while others go under?

The impacts go far beyond electric school buses.

While I’m an advocate for electric school buses, I am a yet firmer advocate for public education, and for all school buses.

Resilience is surging forward in some respects.
And let’s name the elephant in the room.