MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Maryland’s State Board of Education just upheld its decision on the $168 million electric bus contract awarded to Highland Electric Fleets by the Montgomery County Public School District.
Last fall, the state board called the deal illegal, saying the district violated its own procurement rules. The district appealed that decision, and today the state board denied that appeal. The district terminated the bus contract last summer.
The report found that the contract between MCPS and Highland Electric Fleets was “arbitrary, unreasonable, and in violation” of the district’s own bidding procedures. The district terminated the agreement over the summer, even though Highland had delivered just 285 of the 326 electric buses it was contracted to provide…