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The Castaic Union School District (CUSD) is facing a shortage of bus drivers, resulting in unexpected route cancellations.
For over a year now, the CUSD has been searching for bus drivers to service Castaic families but to no avail, said Steve Doyle, superintendent for the CUSD.
“Currently, we only have four drivers,” Doyle said. “We have three drivers transporting special education students as required by law. That only leaves one driver for two general education routes, Val Verde and Templin Highway.”
In the meantime, the CUSD is trying to contract with outside agencies to secure another driver to keep the wheels on the bus going ‘round.
Although the move was announced last minute to cancel the Val Verde route last week, it has to do with legal reasons, according to school officials.
“The reason it happened so quickly was it came to our attention that we had special education students who were not being transported to school,” Doyle said. “We had to act quickly to use one of the transit drivers to pick up the special education route who were not being serviced. We are hoping that we can find an agency that we can contract with to provide a driver for the Val Verde general education students. If not, we would be forced to rotate the two general education routes every three weeks until we can find a fifth driver.”
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Wondering why this issue was not addressed at the end of the last school year.
The data was there for logistics. Who is asleep on the job over there? They had 3-1/2 months to prepare for September. Why aren’t parents complaining? Where are all the rabid protesters? They don’t care if students can’t get to school? CUSD had a lot of explaining to do for dropping the ball on this one.