Close to 100,000 Duval County schoolchildren headed to class Monday after a summer that sometimes seemed to students and parents, in different ways, like it would never end.
The new school year started well, said Superintendent Christopher Bernier , who had been up since 3 a.m. and visited a bus yard to talk to drivers before walking the halls at Raines High School, meeting faculty and students and waiting for 7:15 start of classes .
A Teams channel the school district set up for administrators to communicate about equipment or human problems was quiet except for reports of minor issues like balky technology, which Bernier said was easily fixed.
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Bernier said human resources teams had spent the weekend processing new bus drivers for the yard he visited, so by Monday driver rosters that are chronically hard to staff only had six openings. The school district still has about 120 in-school job openings, but he said classrooms are fully covered.