Immediate crisis eases, but problems aren’t gone
Justin Murphy – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 9/10/21 on page A3
After five emergency meetings in six days and a 24-hour delay to the first day of school, the Rochester City School District on Thursday managed to send school buses for nearly all eligible students.
The district needed a timely intercession from Regional Transit Service (RTS), which made space for several thousand more students than it had anticipated.
The two sides still need to sign a contract, and much work remains in stabilizing the driver workforce, both internally and among the district’s key contractors.
The immediate crisis appears to have passed. But why did it get so bad? Here are partial answers to some complicated questions.