Atlanta students pepper sprayed on school bus


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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Public Schools officials say 10 students have been hospitalized after a being pepper sprayed on a school bus.

District spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green tells WXIA-TV (http://on.11alive.com/1oh0ajX ) a bus driver used pepper spray while an administrator at Maynard Jackson High School tried breaking up a fight aboard a bus Wednesday afternoon.

Green says the bus driver is new and the district's human resources department is reviewing the incident.

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Information from: WXIA-TV, http://www.11alive.com/

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