![]() “We are competing with all the school districts, as well as MTS,” or San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System.īus driver jobs, which require specialized training and often have split shifts or six-hour days, and often low pay, were already a hard sell before the Covid-19 pandemic. “We are trying everything - shaking the trees and looking for candidates,” Marques said. The district is short 50 drivers this school year, forcing it to combine and reorganize routes, as well as press other workers - with the required Class B license - into service as drivers, said Marceline Marques, operations support officer for the district. District vans sport ads announcing job openings for drivers. New legislation could make matters worse.Īlthough California has had an acute shortage of school staff throughout the pandemic, school officials cite the lack of bus drivers as one of their biggest problems.Ī large banner is strung across the San Diego Unified bus yard advertising bus driver jobs. Eyes on the Early Years Newsletter ArchiveĪ severe shortage of school bus drivers, compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic and competition from commercial businesses, has districts combining and collapsing routes and scrambling to find enough drivers for the ones that are left.Local Control Funding Formula Explained.California’s Homeless Students: Undercounted, Underfunded And Growing.Full Circle: California Schools Work To Transform Discipline.Tainted Taps: Lead puts California Students at Risk.Education during Covid: California families struggle to learn.College And Covid: Freshman Year Disrupted. ![]() Adjuncts’ gig economy at CA community colleges.California’s Community Colleges: At a Crossroads.A town’s library fight spotlights inequities.
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