{"id":378389,"date":"2026-10-20T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378389\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:30:07","slug":"6-special-education-students-kept-on-school-bus-in-nyc-for-more-than-4-hours-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378389\/","title":{"rendered":"6 special education students kept on school bus in NYC for more than 4 hours: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A New York City school bus driver and matron were accused of keeping six nonverbal special education students on a bus for more than four hours while school officials desperately searched for them, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Special Commissioner of Investigation Anastasia Coleman told WABC<\/a> the children ranged in age from 6 to 8.<\/p>\n

“They’re nonverbal, so they can’t tell you what happened,” Coleman said, per the media outlet. “One of the children was lying on — lying down and had her diaper off and had urinated.”<\/p>\n

Coleman said the bus carrying the children was expected to arrive at P.S. 289 in Brooklyn between 8:20 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Dec. 16, 2025. But, she said, it didn’t show up until 1:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

Investigators said the driver, identified as Eric Chery, became lost and went to wrong schools, WABC<\/a> reported. Officials began calling Consolidated Bus Transit, the company that employs Chery and matron Germina Thomas, at 10 a.m. but received no answer, the outlet noted. <\/p>\n

Investigators substantiated failures by both employees and recommended permanently barring them from supervising city students or working for education vendors, per the outlet. <\/p>\n

Consolidated Bus Transit said both were placed on administrative leave and cannot operate buses or interact with students while the matter is pending, the outlet noted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A New York City school bus driver and matron were accused of keeping six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-378389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}