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FILE - Fourth grader Shawn Baker waits for a bus to pick him up for the first day of school at Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy, a St. Louis Public school, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

FILE - Fourth grader Shawn Baker waits for a bus to pick him up for the first day of school at Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy, a St. Louis Public school, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

An unmarked school bus dropped students off at Shaw Visual and Performing Arts elementary school, a St. Louis Public school, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in St. Louis. School buses are required by state law to have "STATE LAW: STOP WHILE BUS IS LOADING AND UNLOADING" in black letters on the back. (Blythe Bernhard/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

An unmarked school bus dropped students off at Shaw Visual and Performing Arts elementary school, a St. Louis Public school, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in St. Louis. School buses are required by state law to have "STATE LAW: STOP WHILE BUS IS LOADING AND UNLOADING" in black letters on the back. (Blythe Bernhard/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

FILE - Bria Gibbs brings her daughter Tai'la Harris, 4, into Columbia Elementary school for the first day of classes for St. Louis Public Schools on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Gibbs drove her daughter to school. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

FILE - Bria Gibbs brings her daughter Tai'la Harris, 4, into Columbia Elementary school for the first day of classes for St. Louis Public Schools on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Gibbs drove her daughter to school. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)