Calendar of Events for December 2025

Includes Access A Ride presentation, Comptroller’s Audit of OPT, and various meetings for the community, for students and for parents/guardians. Keep checking as details get added.
*Public schools are closed starting Wednesday Dec 24, 2025 and reopen Monday Jan 5, 2026.

November 2025 Calendar of Events that have to do with Student Transportation

October 2025 events and some early November items.

Eventos de octubre de 2025 y algunas cosas en el primer parte de novembre.

September 2025 list of places to learn and organize together to bring more attention to what’s broken in the NYC school busing system.

Photo credit: Thu Le

More photos from this month’s activities will be found on the Gallery page.

July 23, 2025 the NYC PEP will vote on this summer’s school bus contracts. ~ Show up Wednesday, 6pm in Chinatown. ~Submit a written comment. ~ Hold them to last month’s promises to tacklie the student transportation crisis with EPP, to involve the most affected community in a complete negotiation process, to refuse emergency multi-year renewals!. Don’t discuss the bus without us! #DisabilityPrideMonth #WheresMyBus #WheresTheAC#SafetyFirst #Respect #EssentialWorkers #TransitEquity

July 2025 Update

1. Virtual Bus Route Clinic Friday July 11 at 1-2 p.m. 

2. Resources for summer school transportation

3. Calendar of events this month

4. Status of school bus legislation and TPS to retain workers

1. New links to support the Road to Better Busing and state bill S.1018

2. Calendar of Events

3. Citywide and Community Education Council voting reminders

4. Afterschool for ALL? Bus parent survey

5. DOE parent-teacher conference and school closing dates

April includes various events for Autism Acceptance, plus other activities that have to do with the season or the political climate we’re living in right now. Please review and let PIST know if you can meet us to represent the #WheresMyBus issue on any of these dates. We just want to get the kids to school!! Pass S.1018. <3

Evening events on Mar 5, 12, 21, 26 Daytime events Mar 10, 11

Developmental Disabilities Awareness & Women’s History Month

November 22 virtual event - NYC families & educators demand solutions to the School Bus Crisis

Visit the page after Nov 18 for registration information.

The number of events on busing and related topics show how strongly families feel about having long school bus routes, doubled up school bus routes, or no route at all. PIST believes in mutual support among all the organizers and participants, to get solutions for the short and long term.

Things we hope you can do to help not only your own student but the rest of the route, school, and city school bus ridership.

List of PIST volunteer meetings for the 2024-25 school year

Typically 2nd Tuesday of the month at lunchtime on zoom AND

3rd Friday evening of the month.

Description of Pupil Transportation Town Hall 09/20/2024

Videos from this event - in English with ASL interpreters highlighted - are now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcPj6KMpQk&t=1401s

Links to official UN commemoration on Fri Dec 1 and an important community zoom on Sunday December 3.

This world needs school buses, not tanks!

Friday Oct 20 at 12 noon on Zoom, a panel of activists for school bus safety and rights, from various states of the U.S. will converse. Q & A.

Sunday Oct 22, 2023: Disability Pride NYC parade is scheduled to go from Madison Square Park to Union Square Park in Manhattan. Gather with school bus activists at 10:00 a.m. General info bit.ly/DPP-2023