In what could have been a far more serious crash, two high school students were lucky to escape with only minor injuries from a school bus that crashed into a ditch and overturned today in rainy Middletown, Delaware.

While weather models show that a normal to above-normal Atlantic hurricane season is likely, according to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), student transporters along the U.S. coasts might receive something of a reprieve from last year’s storms.

Eruptions and fissures near the Kilauea Volcano produced conditions resulting in governmental alerts, school closures and school bus route modifications on the Big Island.

Aspen View Public Schools in Athabasca, Alb. Canada is mourning the death of a Thorhild Central School student following a fatal school bus crash with a semi-truck.

March 2, 2012 quickly became a more hectic day than usual for Henryville, Indiana school bus driver Angel Perry. Two super-cells, thunderstorms with rotation and a prolonged updraft, bore down on the town located 20 miles north of Louisville, Ky. One of the storms had a history of tornados.

Heavy rains brought flooding to the midwestern and southern U.S. and trapped school buses with students aboard. 

Realizing the challenges faced by students who have to walk to school in the winter, an organization in Vermont arranged for the Winooski School District to receive school bus services as part of a winter transportation pilot program.

With harsh winter weather pounding the midwestern and eastern regions of the U.S., school officials are responding to complaints about repeated school cancelations.