(Washington, D.C.) -- More than a dozen school districts across Oregon are getting millions of dollars in federal funding to purchase electric buses. The Environmental Protection Agency is giving 15 districts a total of 22-point-6 million dollars to replace 96 older buses with electric or propane buses. The Pendleton School District is getting the largest grant, four-point-one million dollars, to buy 13 electric buses. Gresham-Barlow, Elkton, McMinnville, La Grande, and Morrow school districts will receive around two-million dollars each.



