![]() ![]() Mike DeWine (R) is considering a similar deployment. Charlie Baker (R) last week called up 250 members of the Massachusetts National Guard to help ease the shortage across his state. ![]() In Boston, the shortage is so acute that some schools have resorted to atypical transportation: An 11th grade language teacher at one charter school recently went viral on Twitter when he documented a class field trip on board a party bus with a stripper pole and neon lights. Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia is offering a $2,500 bonus to new drivers - $100 more than the school district in the county seat, Charlottesville, is offering. Philadelphia’s school district will pay families $300 a month, or $3,000 for the year, to opt out of transportation services and get their kids to school on their own. The shortages are so bad in some places that districts are taking extraordinary steps to get kids to school as students return to in-person classes this fall. School districts around the country are struggling to fill thousands of bus driver positions as worker shortages lead to late arrivals and last-minute scrambles to bring retired workers back onto payrolls.
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