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A hot ride for students
No AC for 40 percent of bus riders
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Students peer out at classmates from the windows of a non-air conditioned bus during dismissal time at Statesboro High School Wednesday.
With the heat index topping 110 degrees each day since Bulloch County started the 2011-12 school year Monday, it’s a hot ride home for about 40 percent of students on school buses. According to Paul Webb, director of transportation for the school system, 40 of the county’s 101 school buses running routes are not equipped with air conditioning. The number of students riding school buses varies each day, but Webb said 4,595 ride in the morning, 4,902 in the afternoon and 330 students are transported for different reasons in the middle of the day.
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