Pasco County Schools operates with 45 unfilled bus routes as officials confront the worst driver shortage seen in two years. At the start of this school year, 60 routes sat empty. Fall hiring brought that down.
Nearly one-fifth of bus routes lack assigned drivers. Students arrive 5 to 20 minutes late on certain routes because of this, per Superintendent John Legg.
“We started the year with about 60 open bus routes. We’re now down to about 45 open bus routes, but we need to get that to zero,” Legg said, according to FOX 13…