Tech Disrupts the School Bus
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When Howard County signed a $27 million contract with the start-up Zum, the company promised to modernize the way schools provide transportation. But when the school year started, that’s not what happened.
Guest: Daniel Zawodny, covering transportation for the Baltimore Banner and corps member of Report For America.
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| 1:00.6 | And according to these frustrated families, not only was the bus more than an hour late |
| 1:04.7 | for drop off. |
| 1:06.0 | My son Mrs. Violin lessons today it was at 4.30. |
| 1:09.4 | It was also 30 minutes late picking students up. |
| 1:13.0 | Imagine that your parent trying to get your kids settled into their back to school routine. |
| 1:18.8 | But the bus that's supposed to bring them there and take them home is missing in action. |
| 1:26.8 | That is what's been happening in Howard County, Maryland over the past 10 days. |
| 1:32.0 | Thousands of students in the county public school system were late, weren't picked up or dropped |
| 1:37.4 | off or were taken to the wrong places, throwing family schedules into chaos. |
| 1:44.2 | Howard County parents are very mad to put it pretty frankly. |
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