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Framingham to hire district bus drivers and monitors; district to lease buses and cover CDL training
Summary
District officials announced plans to bring bus drivers in-house starting July 1, to lease buses, hire drivers/monitors as school employees and to cover CDL training costs; initial recruitment yielded 14 driver and 7 monitor applications.
Framingham Public Schools officials announced Feb. 5 that the district will begin hiring its own school bus drivers and monitors and will lease buses as it transitions to an in-house transportation operation starting July 1.
Lincoln Lynch, executive director of finance and operations, said the district posted driver and monitor jobs across major job platforms and will help pay for applicants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses. "As of Saturday, we have our school bus driver and school bus monitor jobs posted on LinkedIn, on Indeed, on Craigslist," Lynch said. He…
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