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And what are you seeing there in massachusetts? >> reporter: well, its a labor problem like so many other industries, retail, restaurants and others are having to find people to work through the pandemic and its also a covid problem and there are bus drivers who tend to be elderly and retirees who retired who found better paying jobs who dont want to deal with masking mandates and vaccine mandates and some who dont want to be around young children who cant be vaccinated. so its a complex problem...

More than half of the countrys school districts say they have a shortage of bus driver answers so severe and desperate in some places, they are having to resort to tough decisions. in philadelphia the school district is offering parents $300 a month to drive their kids to school than put them on bus. one is offering $7,000 signing bonus if become a school bus driver in windsor. ron allen is with us in lawrence, massachusetts. members of the national guard are learning to be bus drivers. ron, loo...

Faculty and staff. >> sounds like its working. dr. campbell. president of spelman college. thanks again for your time. >> thank you. good to be here. >> the latest curveball for school districts this year. getting enough bus drivers to even get kids to school. were going to look at how massachusetts is getting pretty creative to deal with the shortage and how other districts are coping. well do that, next. ther distris are coping well do that, next. th the worl. thats the nature of being the eco...

School Bus Driver Shortage Prompts Massachusetts Governor To Activate National Guard.

DMPS has struggled to fill bus driver, food service and before and after school care positions.

Upon thousands of people crossing. its not just 7,000 under the bridge. we already had more than 2,000 people in the stations in del rio. thats why we have to meter them out because we just dont have the capacity to take these people into custody. steve: well, its a tough job. and were glad you are there. but we wish it wasnt this situation. brandon, thank you very much for joining us live today from tucson. >> thank you. steve: all right. 22 minutes now before the top of the hour. taliban infig...

Schoolbus shortage across the country forcing schools to take extreme action. massachusetts going as far as to mobilize the national guard to become bus drivers, new yorkers and women wants the empire state to do the same and joins me now. how dire is this lack of schoolbus drivers. >> hundreds of school children have not been picked up. something to take immediate steps to remedy. it was the department of labor, with schoolbus companies with a list of those first cdl licenses.

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>> reporter: it is the latest and maybe most extreme approach to curbing a shortage of bus drivers. the national guard are training to transport school kids. >> it is out of the box. >> reporter: the superintendent of chelsea schools near boston says two weeks into the year and shes still short 15 drivers. meaning one in every five busses has run late. now the guard will drive ten passenger school transport vans in her district. >> weve worked so hard to get our students back. we want our studen...

Her class. bus drivers drove wifi hot spots to neighborhoods with no connection. counselors took call after call from parents in tears just trying to juggle it all. when families needed help the most, educators answered the call. with all of my heart, thank you for being the heroes that we needed. today, our administration is making sure that schools like brooklyn have the resources and the support they need to bring students back to class, where they belong. and we are going to partner with you...