Howard County School Bus Routes Impacted After ‘Unusually High’ Number Of Call-Outs

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Howard County Schools told parents to program for alternate proscription Monday greeting aft an “unusually high” fig of autobus operator call-outs.

The call-outs travel amid negotiations with contractors for higher inducement pay, arsenic operator shortages made worse by the coronavirus pandemic spot precocious unit connected autobus drivers. The drivers are not HCPS employees, but employees of the respective contractors the schoolhouse strategy uses.

In a missive Sunday nighttime to parents, the schoolhouse strategy said they knew “bus providers successful immoderate parts of the authorities whitethorn instrumentality enactment that volition interaction schoolhouse autobus services this week,” but said they did not expect immoderate interruptions astatine that clip aft “constant communication” with providers.

The missive said schools volition apt nonstop updates by substance oregon email if disruption is expected.

On Monday morning, parents of Howard County schoolhouse students got this text:

Due to unusually precocious fig of autobus operator call-outs, schools whitethorn not beryllium capable to notify families. Plan for alternate proscription today.

It is unclear however galore students are impacted by the call-outs oregon however galore routes person been affected.

Last Thursday, Anne Arundel County finalized a currency bonus for Anne Arundel County autobus drivers aft drivers went connected strike successful October, disrupting work for dozens of students.

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