Halfway through the current school year, students with disabilities are still having difficulty getting reliable transportation due to a national bus driver shortage. Special education assistants have been pulled from classrooms to fill in for missing substitute teachers and have had to monitor lunchrooms due to staff shortages.
This is atrocious! This problem has been around since classes began! Bus driver shortage! Why not qualify drivers from Streets and San or other agency! Union beef? Money takes care of that! There’s always money. A spotlight would get this fixed Monday. Trib? Sun Times?
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
This is atrocious! This problem has been around since classes began! Bus driver shortage! Why not qualify drivers from Streets and San or other agency! Union beef? Money takes care of that! There’s always money. A spotlight would get this fixed Monday. Trib? Sun Times?