{"id":13358,"date":"2025-05-29T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=13358"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:08:51","slug":"stuck-on-a-school-bus-for-over-an-hour-nyc-students-see-35-increase-in-extreme-delays","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/articles\/stuck-on-a-school-bus-for-over-an-hour-nyc-students-see-35-increase-in-extreme-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck on a school bus for over an hour? 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The results are mixed.\r\n<p data-block-key=\"e6pm2\">While the city's public school buses are on pace to have fewer overall delays compared to the previous school year, the extreme delays that Izquierdo says her kids experience \u2014 those exceeding an hour \u2014 are at their highest point since the city started collecting the data in 2015.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"3r0h\">And most of those long delays are affecting buses transporting students with disabilities. Parents and advocates say the failure to get those children to school on time violates their rights to an education.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"84tgi\">\u201cStudents with disabilities have a right to fully participate in school and be present in all classes,\u201d said Randi Levine, the policy director for Advocates for Children. \u201cSo it is a legal problem if students are arriving late every day and missing class.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"3duqm\">Here\u2019s how the numbers break down:<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"bnirk\">New York City\u2019s public school buses serve more than 150,000 students across more than 9,000 bus routes, according to the city\u2019s Department of Education. Departmental data shows those buses have experienced 65,811 delays so far, and there\u2019s just less than a month left to go. That\u2019s 17% fewer overall delays than last year. But nearly a third of them \u2014 19,996 bus rides in total \u2014 exceeded one hour. That\u2019s 39% higher than last year.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"bnirk\">Students with disabilities were more likely to experience longer bus rides. In the 2024-25 school year, special education buses made up 74% of the overall delays. That\u2019s consistent with the fact that three-quarters of all school buses in the city serve children with disabilities, according to the Department of Education. But that doesn\u2019t account for another stark number in the data: 94% of the delays that went over an hour affected those very same special education buses.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"85h5m\">City Councilmember Rita Joseph, who chairs the education committee, said she is aware of the persistent crisis and the array of challenges facing students with disabilities who rely on school buses. In response to Gothamist\u2019s findings, she said she\u2019ll request a briefing from the Department of Education to better understand the trend in delays.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"85h5m\">Joseph has joined parents and advocates who have said the problem stems from a bus driver shortage perpetuated by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/school-bus-service-is-already-rough-in-nyc-it-could-get-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an outdated contract<\/a>\u00a0between the city and the school bus companies. The 45-year-old contract is regularly being renewed after the city interpreted a 2011 state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/Reporter\/3dseries\/2011\/2011_05114.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court of Appeals decision<\/a>\u00a0to mean that it could not enter into new contracts without eliminating employee protections, which include job security for drivers whose companies go out of business and seniority preference for new bus routes.<\/p>\r\n<p data-block-key=\"4pcn8\">\u201cIf these contracts get extended we can\u2019t add any new companies, so we can\u2019t address the shortage,\u201d Izquierdo said. \u201cThat\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":false,"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13359}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stuck on a school bus for over an hour? 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