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The Education Gradebook

School is back, Tampa Bay. So is the nightmare of the car line.

More than half of U.S. children are driven to school by their parents. That’s four times what it was in 1969.

School Resource Officer Anthony Santiago monitors traffic as cars line up for car rider pickup during student dismissal outside of Bryant Elementary School May 22 in Tampa. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]

Marlene Sokol

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Marlene Sokol is a former education reporter.

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