Before sunrise on school days, 7-year-old Laike Glesne used to lug his backpack from a Chicago public bus to a train and then a second train to get to his second grade classroom 20 miles south of his ...

You could argue the real American dream isn’t a Corvette or a Harley—it’s a battered yellow school bus wheezing down a suburban street at 6:45 a.m. It doesn’t look cool, it doesn’t sound fast, and it ...