Mahoning County school superintendents to brainstorm solution to bus driver shortage
POLAND, Ohio - Administrators from Mahoning County school districts will meet Thursday to put their heads together in search of solutions to a bus driver shortage.
Poland Local Schools will host the Transportation Roundtable for regional school superintendents at 10 a.m. March 3, on Dobbins Road.
“The agenda of the meeting is to discuss and propose ways that neighboring school districts can collaborate to ameliorate the regional effects of a national school bus driver shortage,” according to Poland superintendent Craig Hockenberry.
Representatives from several Mahoning County school districts are scheduled to attend. The event is reserved solely for school officials and is not open to the public.
The driver shortage prompted Poland Schools to eliminate two bus routes for 180 students, causing long lines of cars outside McKinley Elementary school as parents picked up their children.
Other school districts have struggled to try to hire bus drivers. According to the Austintown Local School website, the district offered an $800 incentive to attract drivers.
