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The Palm Beach Post's Florida Ranking series spotlights how under paid public school bus drivers are in the state compared to the rest of the country.
One of the most common jobs in the United States for a bus driver is to work for a public school or a public school district, transporting students aboard a school bus to and from the school building and school events. As of 2004, 71% of bus drivers in the U.S. were employed by schools. [39]
A shortage of school bus drivers has complicated an already stressful back- to-school season across the U.S. According to some in the field, the problem might be a long-term situation.
Police officers, school crossing guards, and even school bus drivers themselves may have the power to wave traffic on, even when a red light is flashing. On divided highways , most American and Canadian jurisdictions do not require vehicular drivers to stop when on the opposite side of the road from a stopped school bus.
Drivers in California are allowed up to 12 driving hours and 16 on duty hours. Drivers for theatrical or television motion picture productions are exempt if the driver operates within a 100 air-mile radius of the location where the driver reports to and is released from work. These drivers may take an 8-hour break, and are allowed 15 hours on duty.
The Department of Education explicitly said it wanted to a raise starting bus driver pay from $9.12 to $13 an hour, which would require an additional $31 million in state dollars.
From the school year 2019-20 through the school year 2022-2023, enrollment in Florida's private schools grew to 445,000 students, an increase of 47,000. During the same period, the number of homeschooled children in the state rose to 154,000, an increase of 50,000 [ 3 ] Enrollment in the state's charter schools rose by 68,000 students in the ...
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