Following his arrest, Thomas R. Carraher, of Howell, was suspended in two different Monmouth County school districts, where he was a teacher and a basketball coach.
The 22-year-old male driver dozed off while driving on Asbury Road in Howell around 7:15 a.m. driving to Marlboro after completing an earlier route in Howell.
The elimination of non-required bus service for students who live less than 2.5 miles from school would save $3.5 million, as the district faced $6 million in lost state aid.
Saturday night's storms wreaked havoc on a lot of the Garden State. 15 New Jersey towns were officially confirmed to have been in the path of a tornado.