Last week, the first week of the 2022-2023
school year, saw the Bulloch County Schools juggling with a lingering shortage
of school bus drivers, a perennial problem in school districts across the
nation made much worse here by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local school district still grappling with pandemic bus driver shortage
Pay up, recruitment efforts underway
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![In this Herald file photo from 2019, Bulloch County Schools bus driver Faith Mobley welcomes Pre-K students aboard at Southeast Bulloch High School. Like many school systems around the nation, Bulloch County is facing a critical shortage of bus drivers.](https://statesboroherald.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2022/08/09/images/School_Bus_File.max-752x423.jpg)
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