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What should be a trip to his Manhattan classroom has instead turned into a grinding, multi-hour slog that now routinely makes him late for his first class of the day.\r\n\r\nThe eighth grader, who has a speech language disability, attends a private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side at the city's expense, with New York City's Department of Education responsible for getting him there and back. As Spectrum News NY1<\/a> reports, his morning bus ride to school now takes two-and-a-half to three hours this school year, and he routinely arrives after the 8:15 a.m. first bell. Last school year, by contrast, he was picked up around 6:45 a.m. and reliably got to school on time at 8:15 a.m.\r\n\r\nRandi Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children, said her organization continues to hear from families still without any bus service at all, as well as families reporting more crowded buses and later arrivals. 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