Two years after Galesburg District 205 was awarded a multi-million dollar grant to acquire nearly two dozen electric buses, the fleet is nearly complete.
Nineteen of the buses have now been delivered and the other four should arrived this week, according to representatives from First Student who addressed the school board on Monday. First Student is the largest student transportation provider in the country.
In addition to receiving one of the largest awards from the EPA’s Clean School Bus grant program, the district is now a national leader in implementing electric buses…