School Bus Driver Appreciation Week
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Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2013 · News & Politics
This week we honor our school bus drivers and the important responsibility they take on each day.Governor Pat McCrory declared this week School Bus Driver Appreciation Week!Thursday, the State Superintendent hopped on an Ellenboro Elementary school bus to ride along with students and talk to the bus drivers.June Atkinson, State Superintendent, we have to remember that our bus drivers are the very first people in education who see our students each morningMore than 13,000 yellow buses travel North Carolina roads to safely transport 790,000 students to school each morning. _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.