Children from Gary D. Wright Elementary School exit their bus after school in the Bayfield subdivision in Pingree Grove on Aug. 15. | Michael R. Schmidt~For Sun-Times Media
Children from Gary D. Wright Elementary School exit their bus after school in the Bayfield subdivision in Pingree Grove on Aug. 15. | Michael R. Schmidt~For Sun-Times Media
A Unit School District 300 bus heads west on Route 72 near Gilberts last year. The district says it is facing severe state cuts for its transportation budget. | Sun-Times Media file photo
A bus from Gary D. Wright Elementary School enters the Bayfield subdivision in Pingree Grove after school last year. The district says it is facing severe state cuts for its transportation budget. | Sun-Times Media file photo
Children including (from left) Devin Pantelin, 7, Ayden Pantelin, 6, and Charles Dwyer, 7, are greeted by Dwyer's dog Twinkie after getting off thier bus Aug. 15 in Pingree Grove. | Michael R. Schmidt~For Sun-Times Media
Gary D. Wright Elementary School students board buses Aug. 13 on the first day of school in the Bayfield subdivision of Pingree Grove’s Cambridge Lakes development. | Photo submitted by Marianna Pantelin-Zdravkovic
Last school year, a preschooler picked up at the Independence Center for Early Learning in Bartlett was left on a bus for two hours before an Elgin School District U46 bus driver discovered the boy at the district garage. In 2009, a 7-year-old boy was …