Next week, the city’s Panel for Educational Policy is set to vote on a three-year extension of school bus contracts — after bus companies agreed to a short-term extension last month to avert disruptions.

That vote may set the stage for the next mayoral administration to take more comprehensive action to overhaul the city’s troubled school bus system, which serves some of the city’s most vulnerable students, including children with disabilities and those who are homeless.

More than 150,000 children in New York City take yellow school buses to school — many of them children with disabilities, or who are homeless or in foster care.

They ride along routes served by 52 different companies, but despite the city spending $2 billion a year on service, critics and advocates say the system remain

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