Internet buses may soon be hauling children to school in many districts, particularly those with long bus routes, reports the New York Times. The company marketing the router, Autonet Mobile [1], says it has sold them to schools or districts in Florida, Missouri and Washington, D.C. Karen Cator, director of education technology [2]at the federal Department of Education, said the buses were part of a wider effort to use technology to extend learning beyond classroom walls and the six-hour school day. The Vail District, with 18 schools and 10,000 students, is sprawled across 425 square miles of subdivision, mesquite and mountain ridges southeast of Tucson. Many parents work at local Raytheon [3] and I.B.M. [4] plants. Others are ranchers. The district has taken technological initiatives before. In 2005, it inaugurated Empire High as a digital school, with the district issuing students laptops instead of textbooks, and more than 100 built-in wireless access points offering a powerful Internet signal in every classroom and even on the football field…