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"A
school bus
is a type of
bus
used for
student transport:
carrying
children
and
teenagers
to and from
school
and school events. The first school bus was
horse-drawn, introduced in 1827 by
George Shillibeer
for a Quaker school at
Abney Park
in
Stoke Newington,
north-east of
London
(UK), and was designed to carry 25
children.... Each year, school buses provide
an estimated 10 billion student trips in the
United States. Every school day, 475,000
school buses transport 25 million children
to and from schools and school-related
activities.
School buses are purchased or leased by some
school districts,
while other school districts engage the
service of
school bus contractors
to perform this function. Approximately 40%
of school districts in the United States use
contractors to handle the function of
student transport;
in Canada, contractors are used almost
universally"
Source:
Wikipedia
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