![]() James Marks, a business agent with Teamsters Local 170, which represents unionized bus drivers in several Massachusetts school districts, said the driver shortage will continue to be a problem until employers figure out a way to bring in more workers. Still, competition for bus drivers remains fierce, and several districts lack enough drivers to take all the students who request a ride to school. Other school districts, including Lawrence, Chelsea, and Worcester, which all scrambled in the last two years to find drivers, also say they are either fully staffed or have enough for there to be no impact on students. District leaders hope the beefed-up numbers, which they attribute to relentless recruiting and more competitive pay and benefits, will improve school bus reliability and punctuality once wheels begin rolling next Thursday on the district’s first day of school. ![]() What quickly elevated to a crisis during the pandemic seems to now be tenuously under control: Some districts across the state are starting the school year with enough drivers to cover all their routes for the first time in years.īoston Public Schools, which has historically struggled with transportation issues, is fully staffed with more than 740 bus drivers for the first time since before the pandemic. Two years after the governor had to call the National Guard to help transport students to school due to a widespread bus driver shortage, school districts across Massachusetts are in a dramatically different situation.
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