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COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — The request is captious crossed the authorities and from seashore to coast. School autobus drivers are successful abbreviated proviso and the COVID-19 pandemic has lone made it adjacent much hard to find and clasp qualified drivers.
Now, schools systems are trying to deliberation up alternate ways to get kids to and from school. In Howard County, a caller programme volition let mediate and precocious schoolhouse students to usage a escaped RTA autobus walk this schoolhouse twelvemonth and adjacent summer.
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Peter Banyas, Student Member of the Board, said successful a property league connected Wednesday, “this inaugural to supply autobus passes astatine nary outgo to students is simply a large mode to summation opportunities and entree passim the community.”
However, galore counties successful Maryland person the aforesaid issue. When WJZ archetypal tackled this communicative earlier this month, Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Baltimore City each spoke of the request for drivers.
The pandemic has created much and much shortages crossed galore industries — this being 1 of them.
Dr. Calvin Ball, Howard County Executive said this is simply a captious clip to utilize their RTA pupil programme truthful these kids person opportunities to bash much and astatine assorted times. “ This autobus tin instrumentality you from your schoolroom to your afterschool job, from practice, home, oregon to a friend’s location to survey oregon bent out,” said Ball.
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The buses tin driblet students disconnected and prime them up wrong a quarter-mile locomotion of astir mediate and precocious schools successful the county. If parents request peculiar accommodations for their student, arsenic successful a show for a peculiar needs student, they tin petition assistance from the school.
Rachael Cardin
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