AKRON — Typically, the response I receive from people when asked if they would ever want to be a bus driver is, “No way!” Everyone knows how critical transporting students to and from school is to the success of students. Many imagine how difficult it is to accomplish this task especially taking into consideration the conditions of our roads in the winter months, student behavior, and a lack of parental support. But, our bus drivers still get the job done day in and day out.

An Ohio school bus driver has lost her job after posting a photo of herself with an alcoholic beverage on Facebook while on the job. The driver stated there were no students on the bus and her shift was over. However, her employer, school transportation company First Student, investigated the matter immediately upon learning of …read more.

Hundreds of school bus drivers and head start teachers from across Indiana are being asked to pay back jobless benefits they’d been receiving during the summer months for the past several years. According to Fox News, many teachers and bus drivers had filed for and received unemployment benefits while school was out in the past. A law …read more.