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)
August 22, 2021
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August 22, 2021 8:35 a.m.
Bus driver shortages are latest challenge hitting US schools
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.