school bus driver shortage

A bus driver shortage forced a suburban school district to switch some of its schools to remote learning Tuesday, closing multiple schools down to students. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip — an experience their teacher said highlights problems with the education system. Jim Mayers, an 11th grade Advanced Placement language and composition teacher at the Brooke Charter School in Boston, said in…

A bus driver shortage forced a suburban school district to switch some of its schools to remote learning Tuesday, closing multiple schools down to students.

After positive coronavirus tests shut down Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center the last week of summer, staff were thrilled to reopen for the first week of school. But when Boston school buses sat empty due to a driver shortage, it wasn’t just public schools that felt the hit— centers like Sportsmen’s, and the families who rely on them, were left...

Amid a national school bus driver shortage, the Massachusetts National Guard is being activated to help get kids to schools at the start of the new year.

More than 2,000 Chicago Public Schools students and their families faced a major disruption as the school year began Monday – the absence of reliable and expected transportation following a mass resignation of bus drivers. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

A nationwide school bus driver shortage, the worst in decades, is hitting the Chicago area right as schools get back in session. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.