According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, school bus drivers last year made a mean annual wage of $42,400 but that's assuming they worked full time. Many do not, making less than $20 an hour.

A bus driver shortage that has plagued the country’s school districts for years came to a head in Louisville. After that first chaotic day, the city’s school system, Jefferson County Public ...

At the start of the school year, it's not uncommon for school districts to be short bus drivers. Before the pandemic, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia had been down 10% from ...

Some school buses — for the districts lucky enough to have drivers — are leaving kids on street corners in the morning and dropping them off well after dinnertime.