Bus driver shortages are latest challenge hitting US schools
School buses were parked in Helena ahead of the beginning of the school year on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. School districts across the country are coping with a shortage of bus drivers, a dilemma that comes even as they struggle to start a new school year during a new surge of the coronavirus pandemic. (Iris Samuels/Associated Press)
HELENA (AP) — A Montana school district is dangling $4,000 bonuses and inviting people to test-drive big yellow school buses in hopes of enticing them to take a job that schools are struggling to fill as kids return to in-person classes.
A Delaware school district offered to pay parents $700 to take care of their own transportation, and a Pittsburgh district delayed the start of classes and said hundreds more children would have to walk to school...
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