Veep Kamala Harris touted federal grants two years ago to replace thousands of gas-guzzling school buses with greener versions — yet fewer than 7% of the initial districts have actually completed the switch.
The administration announced its kick-off to the troubled program in 2022, with Harris crowing that the first billion dollars would help 389 school districts across the country purchase upwards of 2,400 “clean” buses.
But so far, just 27 of those hundreds of school districts have marked their project status as “complete,” according to an EPA tracker, which was updated June 20.
Within the 27 school districts, which were awarded a total of $19.3 million, there are 60 electric or propane-fueled school buses, the tracker said.