Columns, Opinion

GUEST COLUMN: Meeker School District needs bus drivers

As shared with our community in mid-May, the Meeker School District is facing a critical shortage of bus drivers.  This shortage is most significant with our route drivers.  

In the past five years we have reduced routes from six to four and absorbed the two eliminated routes with the four existing routes.  While doing so has allowed us to generally maintain the same routes, these changes reduce efficiency, increase crowding on buses, and lengthen…