Special Ed advocates say school bus GPS will save kids
Parents of special education students were paying close attention when the City Council passed a bill on Wednesday mandating that all school buses come equipped with GPS tracking devices.
The GPS devices will mean that parents will have access to up-to-the-minute information on exactly where their kids are at any given moment during the trip to and from school, according to advocates who watched the vote closely.
The issue is particularly acute to parents of special education students, who comprise a large share of the passengers riding city school buses.