Schenectady put disabled preschoolers on 2-hour bus rides before adding a second bus

SCHENECTADY — Imagine taking a 3-year-old on a two-hour drive.

Now imagine that the 3-year-old is disabled. And that there are 14 of them.

That’s how many preschoolers Schenectady County placed on a school bus this summer for a ride to their special education program in Amsterdam. The students lived across the county, and it took two hours to collect them all before reaching school…

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