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Except for parents, kids, little movement in NYC school bus strike

A school bus stops while picking up a

Photo credit: Getty Images | A school bus stops while picking up a student in Manhattan's East Village. (Jan. 15, 2013)

Suman Jain had to choose between a two-hour subway ride and a 30-minute drive to take her special-needs daughter to school yesterday morning as a strike by more than 8,000 New York City school bus drivers and aides kicked off, affecting about 152,000 children.

Because of the strike over job protections, Jain, 49 of Forest Hills, has to chauffeur her fourth-grader to and from PS 88, an elementary...

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