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A ‘hot mess’: Stockton Unified bus drivers blame poor planning for chronic delays
BY THE TIME bus driver Jesus Banda pulled up to Cesar Chavez High School, the warning bell had already rung. At about 8:40 a.m. this past Tuesday, his bus was the last to arrive, carrying about a dozen students to the North Stockton school where classes had started 10 minutes earlier. This sort of tardiness […] The post A ‘hot mess’: Stockton Unified bus drivers blame poor planning for chronic delays appeared first on Local News Matters .
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BY THE TIME bus driver Jesus Banda pulled up to Cesar Chavez High School, the warning bell had already rung. At about 8:40 a.m. this past Tuesday, his bus was the last to arrive, carrying about a dozen students to the North Stockton school where classes had started 10 minutes earlier. This sort of tardiness […] The post A ‘hot mess’: Stockton Unified bus drivers blame poor planning for chronic delays appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, A ‘hot mess’: Stockton Unified bus drivers blame poor planning for chronic delays, BY THE TIME bus driver Jesus Banda pulled up to Cesar Chavez High School, the warning bell had already rung. At about 8:40 a.m. this past Tuesday, his bus was the last to arrive, carrying about a dozen students to the North Stockton school where classes had started 10 minutes earlier. This sort of tardiness […] The post A ‘hot mess’: Stockton Unified bus drivers blame poor planning for chronic delays appeared first on Local News Matters .
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