Some CPS special ed students endure 2-hour bus rides as transportation problems continue to start year – Chicago Sun-Times*

Even though her daughter had an hour-long bus ride to school last year, Clarissa Edwards thought the length was reasonable, given the school’s distance from home and the number of kids on the route. This year, though, the girl’s ride to the same school has been almost two hours each way. “It’s super hard as a parent to justify putting your kid through four hours on the bus to get to school,” she said. “It’s just really hard.”