Jason Ballard's bus companies secured $2.4 million in contracts at Newark Public Schools after he stopped working there.

Under Ohio law, public schools have for decades been required to provide buses for students at private and charter schools, with some exceptions, or face funding cuts from the state government ...

Jason Ballard, business administrator for the Orange school district, has owned numerous private school bus companies since 2011. The ninth time Kelley Edwards was involved in a car crash, ...

In Dayton, public school students are forced to take public buses to school, while private and charter school students get to use yellow buses. By Cristina Tinsley. June 9, 2025.