First the school buses didn’t show for many CPS students. Now it’s the transportation reimbursements checks for their put-out parents.

Lydia Stamper, right, and her daughter, Bronson, a student at Whitney Young Academic Center, get ready to make the drive from their Washington Park home to the school on Feb. 7. Stamper has been driving her daughter after busing problems and says she has only received one bus reimbursement check from Chicago Public Schools. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)