The Philadelphia school district is proposing to give parents $3,000 annually as an incentive for them to transport their children to school due to bus driver shortage.
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The Philadelphia School District is facing bus driver shortage, which has led them to introduce the Parent Flat Rate Transportation Program.
The program aims to solve the problem of bus driver shortage by incentivizing parents to provide transportation for their own children to school.
To address the bus driver shortage, under Parent Flat Rate Transportation Program parents will receive an amount of $300 a month if they take their kids to and from the school.
Starting this school year, to address the bus driver shortage, the Parent Flat Rate Transportation Program that was tested as a pilot in 2020 is being fully implemented for the first time. To address the bus driver shortage the program is set to begin next week.
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Families can still apply for the transportation program to address the bus driver shortage until the end of September.
Students who live more than one to one-and-a-half miles away from their school and students on education plans requiring curb-to-curb transportation are eligible for the transportation program to address the bus driver shortage, CBS News Philadelphia reports.
To address the bus driver shortage, parents are given $300 per month or $3,000 per year for taking their children to school and picking them up every day. However, if they only drop off or pick up their children, they can only receive $150 per month or $1,500 per year, CBS News added.
The school district currently has around 105 job openings and due to the bus driver shortage, it is actively recruiting applicants through its website.
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