https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/11/20/panel-for-educational-policy-approves-three-year-school-bus-contract/


https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-school-bus-deal

" Several parents, including Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso complained that the city's policy of extending the busing contracts that date back to the 1970s has done little to address delays or other busing issues."

This will NEVER get resolved until there is a massive increase in hiring to cover every run. They don't give the companies enough credit for being down drivers and still covering multiple runs by drivers.

Bloomberg is the cause of all of this.
At the time of his manufactured third term,
I had been driving at Pioneer for 10 or 11 years. At that time we were flush with drivers and there was literally a file cabinet with 100s of applications of people waiting to get called & hired. Every morning there was 10 or more shapes in the drivers room waiting for work and another 10 casuals waiting at home by their phones. Also at that time you basically had to know someone to get a job here. Now you can have just got off the boat and you automatically get a job. Back then if you heard a total of 10 late reports a year it was a lot. Today we hear 50 late reports a day!

WhatBusTpday and PROUD MEMBER your are both correct. The COVID layoff  compounded the problem even more. There simply aren't enough drivers! I don't know why that's so hard for PEP members and parents to understand.

I've seen posts on Facebook from smaller school districts around the country that have actually had to close schools on some days because they did not have enough drivers. What would those finger-pointers say then???