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Brendan Wagner, pupil transportation director for the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Unified School District, shares his thoughts on attacking the nationwide school bus driver shortage - and it can't focus entirely on the wage rate.
Read More →The company says the financial commitment offers a solution to the school bus driver shortage and will help the communities it serves.
Read More →The industry will have to go through a period of adjustment and become innovative in ways we have not previously utilized. For example, we have seen an increase in wages and benefits, but wages and benefits only provide a partial solution to this comprehensive problem.
Read More →Although pay and other benefits help mitigate the shortage in some districts, others see jobs unfilled elsewhere in the education ecosystem.
Read More →Through generations of their own families, find out how these transportation leaders show their dedication to working as a team toward the shared goal of keeping students safe.
Read More →Legislators kept wages stable, with the unintended consequence that, as we struggle to emerge from a pandemic, bus drivers find themselves weighing their commitment to serving school districts against better pay and benefits working for other transportation outfits, such as Amazon.
Read More →The association looks beyond COVID and critical driver-shortage impacts to gather data.
Read More →Chris Dowdy, superintendent of the Valley Mills (Texas) Independent School District, ran bus routes himself when he was short-staffed due to ill drivers.
Read More →Learn about the origins of the nationwide driver shortage, and how we should address it in this episode of The Route by School Bus Fleet.
Read More →Hear about the nationwide driver shortage with Stephen Owens, senior K-12 policy analyst with the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.
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