‘Kid-Uber’ Apps Are Disrupting the Old Yellow School Bus Model

Rideshare companies for children are rapidly expanding to serve K-12 schools, worrying labor union representatives who fear the tech-savvy, quicker, and often cheaper modes of transportation may arrive at the expense of bus drivers and kids.

Busy parents have long struggled with shuttling their kids back-and-forth between school, sports, and other activities. So a handful of tech entrepreneur moms created apps for that.

Zum Services Inc., HopSkipDrive, and Kango, along with similar now-defunct services, were launched over the past decade to fill a void that couldn’t be met by app-based rideshare giants Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. With the ...