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With students returning to public school campuses Monday after summer break, the state Department of Education reported Friday that it is continuing to work with school bus contractors to help recruit and retain drivers and restore suspended routes as quickly as possible.
The Hawai‘i State Department of Education (HIDOE) continues to work with its school bus contractors statewide to help recruit and retain drivers and restore suspended routes as quickly as possible.
Some parents on the Big Island are having to find alternative ways to get their children to school with drivers calling out sick during the Omicron surge.
Schools will have to absorb $5M they used to buy PPE in pandemicâs early days
Schools to absorb $5M they used to buy PPE in pandemicâs early days By Lynn Kawano | January 13, 2021 at 5:46 PM HST - Updated January 13 at 6:46 PM
Itâs money they thought theyâd get back in federal emergency funds.
In a legislative briefing Wednesday, state education leaders said they were under the impression that the PPE spending would be reimbursed by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
âIn the early days, the schools provided and took the proactive measures of getting the PPEs,â assistant Superintendent Randall Tanaka told state senators.