The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced it has been awarded a $19.9 million grant from the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiative made possible by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. ISBE will distribute grant funds to nine Illinois school districts to replace 70 internal combustion engine school buses with zero-emission electric buses, install 70 electric vehicle charging stations, and offer workforce training to support these new technologies. The following school districts in Illinois will receive new zero-emission school buses and charging infrastructure through the grant: 

• Forest Park School District 91 – five school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Franklin Park School District 84 – three school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Hazel Crest School District 152.5 – one school bus and charging infrastructure 

• Joliet Township High School District 204 – 10 school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Lincolnshire-Prairie View District 103 – four school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Marengo Union Elementary CSD 165 – two school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Township High School District 113 (Highland Park) – three school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C – 32 school buses and charging infrastructure 

• Zion-Benton Township High School District 126 – 10 school buses and charging infrastructure 

For more information on the EPA’s Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program, visit the EPA’s website.