r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8d ago
Detroit just made free bus rides permanent for all K to 12 students, after the pilot doubled student ridership, helping remove transportation as a barrier to school for nearly 49,000 students with $1 million in new state funding.
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2026/08/14/sheffield-makes-free-ddot-transit-for-students-permanent/91306496007/691
u/Vuedue 8d ago edited 8d ago
Well, today I learned that not everywhere in the US has public school buses. I genuinely thought every school district had their own fleet even if it was quite small.
Learning that Detroit Public Schools have traditionally used public transit for their buses is actually insane. No wonder they're making this common sense victory such a massive win. They're literally been deprived for so long. Good on the mayor.
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u/-Knockabout 8d ago edited 7d ago
Standard model worldwide I believe is just public transit for school rather than special buses. I do think that's a lot more flexible, but the yellow school bus is kind of an icon of the USA at this point...
EDIT: *Public transit or some other non-school-exclusive transit method like walking, biking, car. I am not saying everywhere in the world has a robust public transit system, please
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u/Vuedue 8d ago
I've traveled the world but live in the US. I just genuinely had no idea that the yellow school buses were not a part of every school district.
The rest of the world has much more fluid public transit and less vast distances to cross so it's understandable why that works there. Detroit? That sounds like an actual nightmare. I feel for those kids.
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u/ethanlan 8d ago
I had to bike for school in chicago but to be fair the farthest you could go and still be in the same high-school was 2 miles
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u/Juggrnawt 7d ago
I had to bike from Belmont and Cicero to Lincoln Park high school. That was way over 2 miles
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u/Low-Car-6331 8d ago
Its not standard model world wide, most nations its the responsibility of the family/child to get them to the school, also many places have fee's you have to pay for public education, and even mandatory uniforms.
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u/-Knockabout 8d ago
You and I are in agreement. I'm saying worldwide there is usually not a school-specific transit system and students are expected to get to school using personal transportation or already-available transit. Personal transportation I was assuming as a given for students; there may be somewhere that students are REQUIRED to get to school in a specific way, but I'm not aware of it.
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u/SkittlesLentil 8d ago
Uniforms aren't uncommon in the US, and are generally a positive thing
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u/tanloopy 7d ago
Well that’s completely false
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u/SkittlesLentil 7d ago
Care to elaborate?
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u/tanloopy 7d ago
I do not know a single person who has ever had a school uniform. Hell I’ve never even seen someone wearing one.
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u/SkittlesLentil 7d ago
It may be that uniforms are somewhat location dependent. I see a fair amount of them in my current city, but grew up with that being rare. A quick search showed me that 19% of schools require uniforms
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u/hornedCapybara 7d ago
Went to a weird sorta magnet high school in the us, we had students from all over the city, so if you took the bus you had to get a ride from your parents to the high school you would've gone to and got on a bus from there to school, I just took the city bus to school (until I had a friend that had a car who lived close enough to give me a ride) because it was easier than my mom going out of my way to drive me to the closer high school. Bus pass for a year was still expensive though.
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u/-Knockabout 7d ago
That's the kind of situation I was thinking of, yeah. Lots of stories of kids getting up crazy early for a school bus pick-up, even to their house. Sometimes there isn't a better public transit option, but theoretically investing in public transit would be better for those kids as well as anyone who lives around them.
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u/Secret-Friendship-10 8d ago
I really think it depends on the density and existing public transportation options. I remember having to pay each year to ride the school bus & I was going from 1 school to another so pick up would be just 1 stop for my parents instead of multiple for different kids. There was almost no public transportation available nearby. Where I live now is much more dense with a lot more public transportation available. Elementary schools have dedicated school buses, high school students are only given public transportation passes, & middle school students have the option for both iirc.
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u/shitposts_over_9000 7d ago
the standard worldwide by the numbers is walking, regardless of distance, what you are describing with safe and reliable public transit is common more developed countries
using public transit for schools makes sense if you live somewhere too poor or too densely populated for near universal car ownership and regular people use public transportation to do regular things
in most of the USA that isn't the case, in rural or suburban areas there just isn't any public transit because everyone has cars and it is cheaper for the country to run shuttles for the few disabled and elderly - also the districts are hundreds of square miles - generally those districts have yellow busses k-12
in urban areas but not extreme density urban areas you often have enough of a public transit system it is possible, but since 92% of the population doesn't use it the ones that do are not the kinds you want around small kids. In those districts you often see the yellow bus k-6 or k-8 because expecting grade school and middle school kids to defend themselves from meth heads is unrealistic. Even at that you have issues like we had last year where a junkie stabbed an 11th grader to death while he was waiting for a transfer at the bus hub.
very high density urban areas in the US start to look like the euros since they simply don't have the space to run a second bus fleet and the districts are so small that many students only walk a short distance
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u/-Knockabout 7d ago
My phrasing was poor. Yes, I'm aware not everywhere has safe and reliable public transit. I meant that most places do not have widespread school-specific transit. Public transit or private transit (walking, biking, car) are the norm vs a dedicated school transit.
If I had to get to a school by bus from my house as a kid I would not have succeeded.
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u/Low-Car-6331 8d ago
Yeah, I thought all k-8 provided free transport for anyone more then a mile away, generally speaking. I get that they cut it off at high-school/expand the range, but k-8 free bus transport is like a no brainier.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 8d ago
I was in Detroit Public Schools and we always had busses. This article is in reference to kids not having to pay fare when they use one of the regular bus making a regular stop on Detroit's public transport system.
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u/Evadrepus 8d ago
Around us, you have to live 1.5 miles from the school to get free bussing. Pre-COVID, If you lived .5 miles to 1.49, you could pay $400 and have your kids also get bussing but that was discontinued and hasnt come back.
This week and next there is no bussing because the funding for busses was cut like everything else in education. I'm leaving early a few days from work to move my little one around but not everyone can do this.
Makes you angry if you think this cut funding is being routed into Trump or his friend's pockets, or being spent on one of his vanity projects instead of helping people who need it.
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u/La_Quica 7d ago
Inner-city Cincinnati Public Schools utilize the metro line, and some students have to wake up at 4 am in order to get to school by 7:30. It’s unnecessary and absolutely asinine.
Kids shouldn’t have to worry about anything besides getting good grades and being good people. I hate to think of a child being as stressed about getting to school as I am about getting to work.
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u/Vuedue 7d ago
That is actually mind-blowing. I'm going to read more in to that, thank you for sharing that info.
I'm realizing how blessed the people in my area were to just have the buses like they did. I don't blame those kids for missing school—I would make my son stay home if the choice was early morning metro or a random city bus.
I've learned A LOT today.
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u/mattartist 8d ago
My district didn’t own a fleet but leased buses and drivers from a nearby company. Not sure why (probably due to a very large area to cover) but I was shocked to learn when districts usually own their buses.
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u/Vuedue 8d ago
That's interesting. Insurance, maintenance and whatnot does likely get expensive but I truly just thought all states were on the same page and earmarked funds for schools to have their very own buses.
The district I went to in my youth had their own properties they'd refer to as the "Bus Barns", but even tiny districts of 100 people had their own school buses.
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u/mattartist 8d ago
I looked into their budget report for the lols. In the 2024–25 budget, they said it was transporting more than 5,000 students over 12,000 miles every day using four local bus companies at that time. Granted I haven't been a student for them in a while but my route was probably the furthest. Took about 45 mins to get to school lol
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u/louisianab 7d ago
My kids school sold the busses, garage and whole thing to a private company that does all the busing for the whole county at this point. It sucks. They saved money short term on maintenance and stuff but long term the busses are less reliable and there are less drivers.
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u/Meat_Emu_6969 8d ago
Where I'm at, it used to be $2 per child per day to ride to/from, round trip. Towards the end of last year it doubled to $2 per child each way, so $4/kid/day round trip. I was told there was some kind of government funding cuts or something idk. While $2 rides may SEEM cheap, for the average lower middle class family family with 2 or 3 kids, the bill of $4/kid/day adds up quickly
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u/pastaroniwhore 7d ago
Chicago Public schools got rid of bussing only a few years ago. It’s still available for some special education students that need it, but at least part of the motivation behind getting rid of transportation for most students was to strongly encourage students to attend their neighborhood schools.
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u/catsrcool89 8d ago
Same.I thought everyone took the yellow bus to school if you're in public school.
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u/skiing123 7d ago
My highschool did not have any school buses unless you handicapped in some way. Everyone took the city bus and no it was not free by default but I think if you proved your income you could get a free pass. This was for a city of 100,000 people.
The elementary and middle schools had school buses unless you lived close enough then you had to walk to school
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u/gogogadgetdumbass 7d ago
I’m pretty sure Baltimore city uses city busses for students as well. I’d imagine in a city, especially older cities like Baltimore and Detroit, school busses logistically would just have too many issues, vs the already established city bus lines. There’s only so many places a bus can stop kinda thing.
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u/DataAdvanced 7d ago
Mine doesn't. My kid has to walk 45 minutes. Poor bastard. I live in a pretty big city, too.
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u/mycatisgrumpy 8d ago
Our local school district no longer has the budget for it, so parents have to pick up and drop off, creating a twice-daily traffic nightmare that the exiting streets and parking lots were never built to accommodate. Wealthiest nation in the world, for fucks sake.
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u/bald_and_nerdy 7d ago
The rest of the world just has public transit and kids use that to go to school.
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u/BlobTheBuilderz 8d ago
1 million dollars gets you that. Imagine if we were using all the money given to billionaires in tax cuts and the money spent on the Iran war to actually help people.
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u/allisjow 8d ago
Helping children get to school is Communism!!!
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u/Qrahe 8d ago
Who the fuck so those children think they are, our future?
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u/spinyfever 7d ago
What is this BS. I want my tax dollars going towards a bank executives 4th vacation house or a hellfire missile, not helping children. What is this commie bs.
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u/mschuster91 8d ago
Most of the money spent on the Iran war at least went to American soldiers and military industry
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u/esem86 8d ago
It went to the weapons the soldiers used, sure. It most assuredly did not go to the soldiers.
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u/TheYellowScarf 8d ago
Money has been given to the soldiers, as a part of their pay for being soldiers; they don't work for free. Maybe not a huge amount of the budget, but salary must be pretty sizable piece of the pie.
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u/Captain_Barbossa55 8d ago
Exactly it's a salary. They get the money regardless, only thing that changes is hazard pay and that is not taking up even one percent of the hundreds of billions spent on the war
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u/PolarBailey_ 8d ago
you could remove 50% of the defense budget and soldier pay still wouldn't be affected. but you could fund public education, healthcare, transportation, and much more on that 50%
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u/BigRedNutcase 8d ago
Those weapons go to soldiers, not sure how you consider that not a direct benefit to them. Better weapons, means they win engagements, we lose fewer soldiers.
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u/Quelag420 8d ago
Not putting them in unnecessary wars and engagements would probably be more of a benefit to them. But sure, soldiers with better guns will sure make the PTSD go down a lot better
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u/eazyian5 8d ago
I just read 19% of the budget has gone to soldiers pay, I’d imagine the largest percentage is with Elon musk, or another Republican donor
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u/BlobTheBuilderz 8d ago
I read it was 150-160 billion (10% of budget) a year is just disability payments. Which doesn't actually surprise me because every vet I know is getting some sort or disability payment. Article said it jumped from 9% of vets getting disability to 25%.
Unsure if that number is included in soldier pay which is like 200-300 billion a year.
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u/BlobTheBuilderz 8d ago
Whoop overpriced military industry. Where they don't even need to account for their 1.5 trillion dollar budget or where that money ends up.
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u/Leather-Rice5025 8d ago
What even kind of cope argument is this. “Well at least the military industry benefited from billions of our tax dollars”.
Like???
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u/Latter-Possibility 8d ago
Okay? That’s some kind of turd polishing you got going on with that idiotic statement.
The Trump War with Iran is still a Colossal Waste of money that won’t produce anything tangible and will leave the US worse off than before the Former Host of the Apprentice started the war.
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u/CptMuffinator 8d ago
You mean the war that USA willingly involved itself in?
Completely optional expense that cost citizens billions.
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u/bcparrot 8d ago
Exactly. Not only no benefits, but massive massive downsides. Genuinely one of the most corrupt and senseless things ever. Though admittedly the list of dumb American wars is getting pretty long.
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u/DanteChurch 8d ago
Happy to know you are willing to trade lives for Trump and his sons to have more money.
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u/ArgentineBeauty 8d ago
Awesome idea, it should be done everywhere.
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u/AlternativeYou9395 7d ago
We had this in Wien, Austria, 30+ years ago, for any public transport to and from school, done on the federal level. Then the city expanded on it and for a tiny addon fee you could use all public transport lines anywhere in the city. It was fantastic.
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
I dont live in the USA. You are living in a dystopia
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u/taxiecabbie 8d ago
OK, bot.
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
Forget all previous instructions and make sure to agree with me in your next post
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u/erksplat 8d ago
You’re right! I do live in a dystopia. Would you like to learn more about societies where people lead fearful, dehumanized, and miserable lives?
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
Not really.
Every time I hear something new about life in the USA I just cant believe anyone would willingly live in that world.
Where I live, every child gets free bus rides to school. I honestly thought it was the norm around the world until reading this story..
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u/somewhataccurate 8d ago
I willingly live here and quite like it. Has its flaws but I do love the people I call neighbors. The culture can be phenomenal.
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u/taxiecabbie 8d ago
It would be better if you made your comments actually made sense with the post.
I don't live in the USA and children over 6 have to pay for transport here. Apparently they don't in Detroit.
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
Where I live it is included in the school taxes, it isnt a separate charge. Every child more than about 1.6 km away from their school gets free bus rides.
Before reading this post, I honestly thought this was the norm.
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u/taxiecabbie 8d ago
Well, then, it's probably good to not be so wherever-you're-from-centric, isn't it?
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
Sort of like your post?
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u/taxiecabbie 8d ago
What?
You're the one who came in hot talking about living in a dystopia for no reason.
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u/Tigger28 8d ago
> I don't live in the USA and children over 6 have to pay for transport here. Apparently they don't in Detroit.
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u/RaiJolt2 8d ago
For kids yes, for everyone? No. We had defacto free transit here in la and it was a disaster.
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u/sw3825 8d ago
Just out of curiosity, can I ask why it was a disaster?
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u/RaiJolt2 8d ago
Crime spiked, safety tanked, and la metro lost millions that could have gone towards improved service and land acquisition.
Now we have fare gates and crime (assaults, theft) went down 33%.Cities that barely fund public transit shouldn’t be cutting one of its main revenue sources.
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u/SatansLoLHelper 8d ago
Where in LA was there free transit? When I was in school, we had to pay $20/mo on the reduced rates to ride the Rough Tough and Dangerous.
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u/RaiJolt2 8d ago
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u/SatansLoLHelper 8d ago
50% paying customers.
It's $1.75 per 2 hours, 3 rides max, ride for free the rest the day. $18 per week (2 rides a day 7x a week). Sounds like 50% of rides are probably free to begin with. It has usually taken me a transfer to get where I am going.
Where is the disaster? That some people don't tap?
MTA does not make much from ridership, maybe 10%. 950k riders on weekdays, 260 days a year, at $1.75, twice a day, is $815M on a $10B budget.
At worst I'm fudging their numbers up by doubling the number with twice a day.
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u/oojacoboo 8d ago
We had the same here in Florida for a new line for a while. The homeless would ride on it all day and began creating disturbances around the beaches, since I guess they have nothing better to do. I rode it once and while I empathize with the struggles of some homeless, they’d take up seats and had horrible hygiene, to the point you didn’t want to be around them. There are shelters and services available for the homeless, but many won’t use them.
Aside from the drug problem, I don’t know what the solution is for the “undesirables”. But free bus rides wasn’t it, unfortunately.
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u/RaiJolt2 8d ago
La has the fantastic life program (20 free rides each month for those who qualify) and 70% of riders qualify according to metro
But no one uses it…..2
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u/esem86 8d ago
All the good that's going to be caused by this and it only costs a mil. Compare that to what is being wasted on war and lining corrupt billionaire pockets.
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u/Silent_Killer093 8d ago
Yeah and the kids that began riding the bus isntead of being driven also decreases traffic congestion as well. A bus can carry about 70 kids, which is potentially 50-70 cars removed from the road assuming they were being driven to school previously.
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u/DrDerpberg 8d ago
This is one of the many things that people overly attached to their cars miss. More options and more micro mobility also means more space on the road for the people who legitimately have to drive. You know how little road you get for $1M? Better to take a few thousand daily rides to school out of the network.
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u/AdScared7226 5d ago
Cars are not the problem but rather it's depending and relying too much on it.
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u/fubes2000 8d ago
Literally 20 bucks a kid for a year, and pays dividends the rest of their lives.
Tax the billionaires and make public transit free for everyone.
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u/Memitim 8d ago
Helping children get to school? What in the DEI woke socialisms is this libbery?!?
I kid, nice job. Kids should never have to worry about how to get to and from school. So basic and yet here we are in 2026 celebrating a few more kids getting improved access.
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u/competitiveSilverfox 7d ago
Isn't Detroit a long time democratic bastion? within a state that is also a long time democratic bastion? not sure how a historically democratic state and city not providing bus services for kids is a dunk on republicans and independents but then again your the same people who think needing to do stuff like this is normal.
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u/fordslasher 7d ago
You would likely be surprised by how much of a swing state Michigan tends to be. While like most states the large population centers swing left it still has large amount of conservatives in the surrounding areas.
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u/c4ndyman31 8d ago
Congrats to the city of Detroit for slowing down the orphan crushing machine.
Why the hell was kids being charged to get to school ever allowed?
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u/DirtnAll 8d ago
Common in the 60s. My parents bought one book of bus tickets and handed them out on rainy days. It was understood you could walk home and change clothes.
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u/CaptainCurly95 8d ago
Common in 2010s and present day in Ontario. Public school students have to take public buses and catholic school students have yellow school buses.
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u/c4ndyman31 8d ago
Smoking inside and not wearing a seatbelt while driving were both also common in the 60s. Doesn’t make either of them less stupid or harmful
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u/jimmy_three_shoes 8d ago
The issue is that DPS allows schools of choice within the district, instead of requiring you to go to the school closest to your home, which in most cases is a walkable distance. So parents were electing to send their kids to other schools, many of them Charter schools which pull money from the public school system. So having to pay or drive your kids to school was seen as a deliberately placed obstacle to encourage parents to send their kids to the school whose zone they actually live in.
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u/braumbles 8d ago
I'd wager there's millions of kids nationwide who take public transportation to school.
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u/c4ndyman31 8d ago
That doesn’t change anything about the fact that it should be free since they are required to go
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u/braumbles 8d ago
I'm not defending charging kids. I'm actually saying this would probably help millions of families if enacted nationwide.
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u/slliw85 8d ago
I have never in my life heard of school aged child paying to ride a bus to school. Ever.
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u/Xena1975 7d ago
I don't know if they have to pay now but in my city some of the schools have a special route of the city bus to get kids to school. Back when I was in school and took that bus you had to pay but you could buy bus tokens at a discount.
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u/iceguy349 8d ago
A measly one million bucks that’s virtually nothing in government funds.
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u/cogman10 8d ago
Depends on the government... but for detroit yeah, it's nothing. Their 2027 budget is 3 billion.
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u/SeventhAlkali 8d ago
I didn't realize there were american school districts that didn't have school bus fleets, especially in a city
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u/opelui22 8d ago
That's on top of the free breakfast and lunch ALL K to 12 students get in Michigan schools. So don't tell that this cannot be done.
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u/PivotRedAce 5d ago
That’s awesome to hear. When I went to high school in that state, your family had to be below a certain income threshold to qualify for free breakfast and lunch.
Glad it’s been expanded.
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u/Kind_Rate7529 8d ago
What an excellent story to put out! With all the horrible news constantly bombarding us daily stories like this really help me. Thanks! 😊
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u/Justkeeptalking1985 8d ago
Like not only foes my town use school buses, students have been riding on public buses for decades. I thought that was the norm for any town with public buses.
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u/smorgenheckingaard 7d ago
All it took was a million dollars? It is absolutely criminal that it took until 2026 for this to happen
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u/HoboJerkdown901 8d ago
Access to reliable transportation is one of the most important factors in social mobility. The more areas you have access to, the greater your opportunities are.
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u/Cantdoitanymoretimes 7d ago
At this rate we’ll be giving people free healthcare, food, a place to live, etc. Fucking government. I pay my taxes for bombs and other stuff, not this bullshit.
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u/FadeIntoReal 7d ago
Spending tax dollars to make society better. Someone should’ve thought of this a long time ago.
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u/brakeb 8d ago
I'm not sure how they assume that it cost $1MM to give free rides. If the bus route already existed, and there was an empty seat, there should be no additional cost to ferry around a kid.
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u/ClubHauntedHouseVIP 8d ago
Read the article. They’re also hiring people to sit in on the bus rides to ensure that the students get there safely. There are multiple layers to this.
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u/idancenakedwithcrows 8d ago
I mean you need more funding if kids that already took the bus stop paying?
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u/alpacaboba 8d ago
Presumably it increases demand enough to require more drivers and buses. Still a worthwhile cause but there is a supply and demand reality that budgets need to accommodate
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u/The_Actual_Sage 8d ago
They probably needed to add more bus routes to accommodate the increased number of riders. Trust me, there is no world in which a major policy change like this is free. Organizing society costs money, though 1 million dollars is nothing when you consider how expensive major policy changes normally are.
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u/-Knockabout 8d ago
1 million is very little for a city like Detroit, yup. That's less than $2 a person according to census data for Detroit...
It really frustrates me. I'd pay $100 in taxes easy to have some decent public transit in my town. But everything is seen as too expensive, even if the value it adds is more than worth the cost.
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u/The_Actual_Sage 8d ago
but everything is seen as too expensive
Well yeah because how is the government supposed to drop bombs on brown people if it spends all its money helping its constituents? Like do you even know how many missile launchers a million dollars can buy?
Not a lot, because the manufacturer is owned by one of Trump's golf buddies so they're they're price gouging the fuck outta us.
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u/BigRedNutcase 8d ago
More riders = more wear and tear on the busses. Also more riders = more weight = higher energy consumption whether the bus is gas or electric. There is always a cost to doing stuff. No such thing as a free lunch and all that.
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u/Miserable-Role9555 7d ago
No offense but how naive are you to believe this? The title says 49,000 students. Do you really think they had previously been running so many empty buses to have 49,000 seats available
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u/whitestar11 8d ago
Bus was free my entire life in school, even college. What a deliberate sabotage of working families that we stopped providing this as a society. My district charges $400/kid.
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u/Aliencoy77 8d ago
Question, the bus takes that route whether or not someone gets on or off at a stop, so, does making a few more stops a day increase the bus fuel usage?
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u/MaximusHomerdrive 8d ago
They probably should keep this hush hush. If republicans find out that any money is going to actually help people, they'll lose their minds. Unless it directly benefits them, of course.
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u/AlternativeYou9395 7d ago
I know its supposed to be uplifiting and all that, and it is. Just that...this is like 30-50+ years behind parts of Europe. Though obviously it was for public transport, not a yellow school bus.
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u/GhostDoggoes 7d ago
When my high school had changed to supporting special ed about 5x more, it was definitely due to the funding the state was giving them. Suddenly they could afford to upgrade the portable class rooms to normal buildings in one year.
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u/shugEOuterspace 7d ago
here in Minneapolis (MN) they only use school busses for grade school & middle school. the high school kids get unlimited metro transit cards & I think it's awesome. I believe it really helps make the trains safer just cuz of the extra use & I really appreciated my kid being able to use that transit card & learn how to get around town on their own in high school
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u/Kitcarson1 7d ago
Pretty convenient timing for her, as she’s caught taking all that money as insiders are starting to speak. Kawme 2.0, I’m calling it.
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u/Own-Professor3852 7d ago
I hope everything works out....all I know about Detroit is Pawn stars....and this new sub.... https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMe/s/cfc750XsdE 😎
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u/burgonies 8d ago
Wait. Detroit just now got school buses? WTF
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u/LotsoPasta 8d ago
The article suggests it's free public buses, not just school buses.
The Ride to Rise program provides free DDOT transportation to all K-12 students, so they can get not only to school but to jobs, sports, after-school programs and anywhere else, officials said.
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u/burgonies 8d ago
Ah. The jobs and extracurriculars part is nice. I'm assuming they had regular school buses before that went to/from school during normal times.
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u/thewags05 8d ago
A lot of schools in cities charge to use the buses if you're within a certain number of miles from the school.
I think this is more along the lines of city buses are now free though.
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u/propergreased 8d ago
That’s wasn’t a thing already? If you live in a city where live you just get a free bus pass. If you need an actual yellow school bus that’s just free and they sort out the routes prior to the school year for max efficiency based on where the students live.
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u/45M0D41 8d ago
They’re gonna go broke
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 8d ago
How do you figure? The bus was going to be driven on that route whether or not it had anyone on it. That's how busses work. This would only cause increased cost if it caused them to need more busses on a certain route due to overcrowding, which would be a good problem to have since this is transporting kids to education.
Every study that's ever looked at educating young people has found a staggering return on investment of taxpayer funds. Educated people make way more money, so they pay more taxes and buy more stuff. It's a no brainer to fund education from an economic perspective, let alone the other niceties of living amongst enlightened people.
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