Bus driver appreciation week

Approximately 790,000 children ride more than 13,000 school buses each school day in North Carolina.  To recognize the excellence of our state’s school bus drivers and their accomplishments, Gov. Beverly Perdue has proclaimed February 13-17, 2012, as “School Bus Driver Appreciation Week.”

School bus drivers in Buncombe County travel 15,100 miles, transporting 16,600 students in 290 school buses each day on the way to and from schools in the City of Asheville and throughout the 660 square miles of Buncombe County.