Months after Ascension Parish bus drivers threatened to boycott routes during a broiling start to the school year, the school board has agreed to spend about $2.2 million over the
During the broiling summer days of the new school year, Ascension Parish bus drivers demanded air conditioning for the public system s buses, both for themselves and the students.
Wearing blue school T-shirts asking "How will you serve?," dozens of Ascension Parish school bus drivers frustrated by weeks of on-and-off searing temperatures pressed the School Board on Tuesday for
ASCENSION PARISH - With record-breaking heat across the state and a new school year just around the corner, Ascension Parish school officials are doing what they can to keep students from overheating on school buses without air conditioning.