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World War II caused numerous shortages and affected many aspects of daily life. School buses, while an efficient means of transportation, required a great amount of resources, particularly fuel and rubber. Because better school bus driving techniques would help to conserve resources for the war effort, the War Council required all school bus drivers to be certified in the safe and efficient operation of buses. The War Council assigned the Education Department to this task, and it in turn requested that the Office of War Training administer the program.
The program trained and assigned instructors in over 100 schools throughout the state and issued certificates to those who passed the course. The War Production Training Office, a subdivision of the War Transportation Office, assumed responsibility for the distribution of publications (though it did not carry out any other program activities) after the Office of War Training closed in 1944.
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