GPS system tracks whether students are riding buses

From The Chicago Tribune: Palos Heights (Ill.) School District 128 is using a system that enables a transportation supervisor sitting miles away to track when and where each student in the district steps on and off a bus. It is the newest technological advance in the effort to ease parents' nerves and keep students safe. Today's parents, torn between wanting to give their kids more independence while also keeping them from harm, can now send them off knowing they can call the school to make sure their child arrived or to check if the child is late returning from school.