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To combat the bus driver shortage, Palm Springs Unified went from providing 83 bus routes at the beginning of this school year to 72 routes in the spring.

Bus driver salary drivers#

'Our struggle this year, and it's predicted it will continue, is school bus drivers, and finding enough school bus drivers to make sure we have enough drivers to serve our students,' Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Brian Murray said at a February board meeting. Palm Springs Unified contracts its bus services with First Student Charter Bus Rental, but thereВ haven't been enough drivers for all its routes.ДЄt times this spring, Palm Springs Unified students arrived at schools up to an hour late after waiting for bus drivers to finish dropping off students at another school before doubling back to pick them up, Abdul Bouzroud, the districtвЂ™s transportation coordinator, told EdSource in March. However, school districts across California that contract bus services to the private sector have not been immune to driver shortages this year, including Palm Springs Unified. Gonzalez recommended on Thursday that the districtВ consider the private sector to provide at least some student transportation. Bus shortage a nationwide problem affecting multiple local districts

Why are you not better prepared? Temperatures are already high,вЂќ Conchita Pozar wrote in Spanish in a Facebook post directed at the school district, some of its trustees and Saul Martinez Elementary. This has been happening since school began. The Desert Sun requested transportation logs to review the extent of the problem on June 1 after frustrated parents took to Facebook to complain about an hour-late bus headed for Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca and another late base returning from Toro Canyon Middle School in Thermal, but the district has not provided any information since.