Delaware school will PAY parents up to $700 a year to 運動 their own children to school after 直面するing 不足 of bus drivers

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EastSide 借り切る／憲章 School boss Aaron Bass says the 会・原則 is struggling to find bus drivers. 'There's a labor and 在庫 不足 at the same time we're 増加するing enrollment and 雇うing,' Bass said. 'We've been looking like crazy for everybody you can think of: 管理人s, cafeteria 労働者s, psychologists, 助言者／カウンセラーs, bus driver'

A Delaware 借り切る／憲章 school will 支払う／賃金 parents up to $700-per-year to 運動 their own children to school as it grapples with a 不足 of bus drivers.??

EastSide 借り切る／憲章 School in Wilmington said it will to 申し込む／申し出 the incentive to parents for the 近づいている school year after struggling to find 適する staffing across the board.??

'There's a labor and 在庫 不足 at the same time we're 増加するing enrollment and 雇うing,' Aaron Bass, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある at the school, told the Washington 地位，任命する.?

'We've been looking like crazy for everybody you can think of: 管理人s, cafeteria 労働者s, psychologists, 助言者／カウンセラーs, bus drivers. Even if you have all the money in the world, you c an't get what you need.'??

The $700 支払い（額） will 適用する per child. That means a family with five children could 利益（をあげる） by $3,500 - or nearly $300 a month -? for chauffeuring their own children to and from school.

It comes as 産業s across the board struggle to find staff まっただ中に a 全国的な labor 不足 driven by 失業 incentives, and pandemic-induced 恐れるs over returning to work.?

The 普通の／平均（する） Delaware school bus driver makes about $37,000 a year - or about $3,080 a month, によれば Salary.com.?

The school 地区's 無（不）能 to attract bus drivers has been 悪化させるd by the CARES 行為／法令／行動する's pandemic 失業 援助 program, which 供給するs 失業した Delawareans with a 週刊誌 $300 補償（金） 上げる in 新規加入 to 正規の／正選手 明言する／公表する 利益s.

The incentive is 始める，決める to 満了する／死ぬ on September 4.??

EastSide 借り切る／憲章 School in Wilmington said it was 軍隊d to 申し込む／申し出 the incentive to parents for the 近づいている school year after struggling to find 適する staffing across the board?

A bus driver 不足 is also 疫病／悩ますing schools in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburg Public Schools 地区 押し進めるd 支援する its start date as it struggles with a 不足 of about 425 drivers

But while the school 地区s 直面する a 不足 of drivers and staff in general, EastSide parent Carla Hurley said she'd spend the money on after-school 軽食s for her children, who are in the fifth and third-grades.??

'It's unreal,' Hurley said of the 不足. 'It has been [a challenge], because we're trying to be creative about it, but with the incentive, now that we're 選ぶing them up, I don't have to take them to aftercare. I'm going to take them home, and that'll be a 抱擁する 貯金 for us.'

Carla Hurley is の中で parents at a Wilmington, Delaware, 借り切る／憲章 school who'll be paid to 運動 their children to and from school.? The mom of two could （不足などを）補う to $1,400 this curricular school year through the incentive.

以前, Hurley would 減少（する） her children off at school but they would catch a bus home after …に出席するing an afterschool program.

However, with remote working, Hurley now 作品 from home as an 行政の specialist with a more 柔軟な schedule that?許すs her to make the 15-minute 運動 to school each afternoon.

'Everyone I talked to about it thought it was a 広大な／多数の／重要な idea,' she said.

The school is still 申し込む／申し出ing the 選択 of bus rides for those who need it.?

Families participa ting in the program must self-attest that they or someone else will 減少（する） off and retrieve their children on time throughout the school year. Students 選ぶd into the program will not have the 選択 of riding a bus during the year.?

Transportation 基金s are made 利用できる to students 入会させるd in public schools in Delaware, and the school is 始める，決める to use those same 基金s to help 緩和する the cost of 代案／選択肢 輸送（する） 選択s for families.?

EastSide is not the only school struggling with filling 職業s.?

The Pittsburgh Public Schools 地区 said it would 延期する the start of its school years from August 24 to September 8 to sort out its 輸送（する） woes - and also to 緩和する the 重荷（を負わせる） of students having to wear masks during the hottest days of summer.

The 転換 of our start date will 供給する the time necessary for the transportation 戦略s we have put in place to take 持つ／拘留する as we welcome students 支援する,' said superintendent Anthony Hamlet.?

'We are also listening to the 関心s raised by our staff 関係のある to the 衝撃 伝統的に 最高気温s in August have on our 施設s now coupled with the use of masks. It is our hope this challenge would be 少なくなるd in September, 許すing everyone a 肯定的な start in the new school year.'

権利 now, transportation 運送／保菌者s are short about 425 drivers, resulting in a seat gap of about 10,996 seats for students in Pittsburgh. The 地区 is 提案するing 拡大するd walk zones to help 相殺する the gap.

一方／合間, Nevada's Washoe 郡 School 地区?said in June that it was 直面するing an 'extreme 不足' of bus drivers and would 供給する 調印 incentives of up to $2,000 for new 従業員s.?

The 地区 申し込む／申し出d 存在するing 従業員s a 特別手当 of up to $1,000 in an 試みる／企てる to 誘惑する them 支援する to the driver's seat.?

In the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, the 失業率 for July was 5 .4 パーセント. And in the week ending August 7, about 375,000 people とじ込み／提出するd 失業 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs, によれば the Department of Labor.??