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Board hears concerns about driver shortage, special-ed summer contracting and a parent’s complaint about long daily rides
Summary
District staff described a statewide driver shortage and a recent out-of-house contract for one summer special-education run; a parent told the board his son’s commute routinely reached nearly two hours last year and asked the district to resolve ride-time problems before school starts.
The Iroquois Central School District Board of Education spent an extended portion of its meeting discussing transportation staffing, summer special-education contracts and a public complaint about long daily student ride times. John and Dave, district staff, told the board the transportation office struggled to staff all runs during summer special-education programming. The district posted nine summer runs, received confirmations from roughly a dozen employees and then actively recruited to secure additional staff; when the district could not fully staff one specific run it contracted with an outside company for that service. Staff said…
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