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When parent complaints and questions began pouring into state Rep. Trish La Chica’s office about the state suspending bus routes at 14 Hawaii public schools two weeks before school started, she says she felt frustrated that she had few immediate answers or solutions to offer.
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.
High school bus routes on the Big Island and Maui have been modified due to the bus driver shortages, but school bus service will continue.
The Department of Education canceled or suspended bus service for 14 schools statewide after dozens of drivers quit.
Kauaʻi seventh-grade student Lasaya Albite-Ruiz from Kapaʻa Middle School is the 2023 Kauaʻi grand prize winner in the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards.