Like Anchorage, the Mat-Su school district is also wrestling with a shortage of bus drivers. The district covers an area larger than the state of West Virginia, adding additional busing challenges.
August 26, 2022
“It’s more than 10,000 miles a day that our buses are covering,” said Superintendent Randy Trani. “It’s a big task.” To deal with the shortage, the district has canceled bus service one day a week per route. That’s a different approach than the Anchorage School District, which divided its routes into three cohorts and staffed each one for three weeks out of nine.
Durham School Services is offering $1,500 bonuses to new drivers. But Trani said, without enough state funding, there’s not much else school districts can do to compete with tour companies for a small pool of workers.
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