New app would let parents track location of DC school buses

Nbcwashington · May 06, 2026 · 379 words · By Adam Tuss

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school bus driver Theresa Brooks-Hill, who is coming back to the job after a few years away, there’s a special bond with the students she carries on the bus.

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What happened

school bus driver Theresa Brooks-Hill, who is coming back to the job after a few years away, there’s a special bond with the students she carries on the bus.

Why it matters

They tell me about their weekend, I tell them about mine,” she said.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: New app would let parents track location of DC school buses?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that thousands of students with disabilities take school buses?
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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/new-app-would-let-parent…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “thousands of students with disabilities take school buses.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that approximately 4,000 students with disabilities in D.C. use OSSE transportation.

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web search NEUTRAL — The numbers presented to the court paint a dire picture: Roughly 4,000 students with disabilities use OSSE transportation on about 550 daily bus routes (as of January 2024). Plaintiffs reported over 1…
https://www.washlaw.org/deputy-legal-directors-statement-on-…

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web search NEUTRAL — January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC - For countless families in the District of Columbia, the daily trip to school is fraught with anxiety due to unsafe and unreliable transportation services for students…
https://childrenslawcenter.org/our-impact/education/the-dist…

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web search NEUTRAL — In Washington, D.C., most students ride Metro, walk, or take regular school buses. But more than 4,000 students with disabilities depend on a separate system: door‑to‑door transportation run by the Of…
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/courtside/the-fight-again…

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Claim 2: “D.C.’s Office of the state superintendent of education (OSSE) is testing a new app called BusWhere, which gives parents an exact location for the bus.”

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While web search results confirm the existence and role of the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), none of the provided evidence mentions a 'BusWhere' app or the testing of a bus tracking system.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The North Carolina superintendent of public instruction is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As the head of the North Car…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Superintendent_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia and commonly known as simply Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, or OSPI, is the state education agency for the State of Washington. The agency is bound by the Washington State Legislature to impl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Office_of_Sup…

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Claim 3: “they go all over the DMV — some of them going as far as Baltimore to reach schools.”

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The provided web search results for this claim are about Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and are completely irrelevant to D.C. school bus routes to Baltimore.

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web search NEUTRAL — Imagination is a key ingredient of Dungeons & Dragons, a cooperative game in which the characters that you roleplay embark on adventures together in fantasy worlds filled with monsters and magic. In D…
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024/playing-the-ga…

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web search NEUTRAL — Unearthed Arcana Playtest Materials Get Unearthed Arcana playtest content, try it out in your game, and provide feedback! Check back regularly for ...
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/ua

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web search NEUTRAL — Learn the basics of Dungeons & Dragons, create your first character using the official D&D Beyond toolset, and find a D&D group near you.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/how-to-play-dnd

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Claim 4: “The program is costing the district about $325,000.”

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The provided evidence consists of Wikipedia entries about the D.C. sniper attacks and Metrobus, which do not mention the cost of a BusWhere app program.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred over three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), serving Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia in the Washington metropolitan area. Metro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrobus_(Washington,_D.C.)

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Claim 5: “These school buses are putting in some serious work every single day, driving about 18,000 miles each day.”

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The evidence provided discusses general laws (IDEA) and general safety of school buses, but does not mention the specific daily mileage (18,000 miles) driven by D.C. school buses.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — D.C. United is an American professional football club based in Washington, D.C. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. Domestically, the club has won fou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._United

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DC most often refers to: Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States DC Comics, an American comic book publisher Direct current, electric current which flows in only one…
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Claim 6: “Our team, including in our parent resource center, gets 350 or more calls every day, and about 75% of the calls that we get are about where’s our bus.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of Wikipedia entries for a politician named Chi Ossé and various locations named Osse, which are irrelevant to OSSE's parent resource center call volumes.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chi Ajani Ossé ( CHEE oh-SAY, born March 18, 1998) is an American politician and activist from New York City who serves as a member of the New York City Council for the 36th district, based largely in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Osse may refer to: Osse, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département, in France Ossé, a commune of the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in France Osse, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) Osse (river), a riv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osse

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ossès (French pronunciation: [ɔsɛs]; Basque: Ortzaize) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. Ossès lies in the traditional Basque province of Lower Navarre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossès

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Claim 7: “About 4,000 students per day are riding on these buses.”

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Multiple independent sources explicitly state that roughly 4,000 students with disabilities depend on the OSSE transportation system.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for Detective Comics, a comic book series f…
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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.