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Kids can drink water on Cobb school buses

By Ty Tagami
Aug 12, 2011

The oppressive heat is leading Cobb County Schools to again relax its restriction on drinking water aboard school buses.

Throughout August and September, students will be allowed to bring water onto buses as long as they're drinking from containers with secure lids or caps.

"We started doing that last year just to accommodate kids in the heat," school system spokesman Jay Dillon said.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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