Washington March Disrupts Bus Service in Several Districts

By Adrienne D. Coles

Last week's Million Man March put the brakes on bus services in some school systems with large percentages of African-American drivers.

Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest school district, canceled its bus service altogether. The city has few standby drivers with proper licenses and the knowledge of routes to cover the more than 200 bus drivers who said they were going to Washington for the march, said Paul Hanson, a district spokesman. "The alternates [to get students to school] were parents," he said.

Students who missed school because they attended the march or had no way to get to...