Does your kid ride an electric school bus? Get ready for Fresher grades as well as cleaner air.

When it comes to electric vehicles, it’s very rare to get a double whammy from the benefits. After all, if you drive, say, a Tesla, pretty much all you are contributing to the fight against global warming is zero emissions coming from the car.

But when school buses go electric, there’s an added bonus — that young bodies and brains are not have to deal with fumes and the like that are pumped out by the yellow kid-haulers.

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It’s hard to miss the mess caused by the vehicles, especially if you live near a school, where buses idle and roar as they wait for exiting students and set off to take them home. After all, almost all of the half million or so school buses operating in the U.S. are diesel powered — the most polluting of internal combustion engines — which contribute about 8 million metric tons per year of carbon emissions, according to the non-profit Environment America Research & Policy Center.

But now the federal government has come up with $900 million to help more than 500 school districts buy more than electric school buses, which adds to the $2 billion already spent on the initiative.

“This announcement is not just about clean school buses — it’s about the bigger picture,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a Tuesday media briefing. ​“We are improving air quality for our children, reducing greenhouse gas pollution, and expanding our nation’s leadership in developing the clean vehicles of the future.”

In addition, the funding aims to dampen many school districts’ hesitation in buying electric buses, which can cost more than twice as much as their longstanding counterparts. However, the government hopes, like with other EVs, prices will begin to come down, thus making the vehicles more attractive to educational entities. In addition, electric buses are less expensive to maintain and operate.

In addition to the funding for the buses, the EPA has also been working with school districts and independent operators chartered by them to install charging stations at depots.

Will your kids’ grades go up? No doubt some academic somewhere will be watching.

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