While the district continues to reestablish service to some bus routes each week, it’s unclear when the issue may fully resolve.
Stephanie Underwood, left, leaves work multiple times a day to pick up and drop off their kids since Andrew has a disability and cannot drive them or wait with them at their bus stop. The Underwoods are one of many families impacted by the school bus driver shortage in the district. From left are Stephanie, Ledger, 8, Ruby, 7, Andrew and Stanley, the family dog.
There are 190 drivers on the job, up from 158 at the beginning of the school year. The district needs about 228 drivers to be fully staffed. Twenty-one drivers are in training.Underwood is currently disabled, so he can’t drive. He used to walk his two kids — Ruby, 7, and Ledger, 8, who go to Chinook Elementary — to their neighborhood bus stop each morning.
The current situation is expensive and inconvenient, he said. Plus, Underwood liked walking his kids to the bus stop each morning.‘Slow strangulation’: Alaska school districts face fiscal cliff with high inflation and flat fundingEven still, Underwood said he can’tsaid he just thinks drivers should be paid a little more.
she left to go pick up her two sons, she’d need to take vacation time, and it would leave her coworkers in a bind. Jones and her family just had their bus route permanently reinstated on Friday, but that hasn’t resolved issues entirely since her kids need transportation to sports — meaning her husband still needs to wake up and take them to their after-school activities, too.
The district has a committee set up to reestablish bus routes based on safety concerns and traffic density, said acting chief operating officer Rob Holland. And while they have a reestablishment plan for the remaining unserviced routes, Holland said the district is not currently sharing it publicly since they can’t say when, exactly, each route would be reinstated.
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