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School bus drivers have been steadily leaving the profession for nearly two decades. As school districts contend with the intensifying labor shortage, one unconventional event celebrates the people who have chosen to stay behind the wheel.

The Ohio House unanimously advanced the School Bus Safety Act on Wednesday, which has gone through many revisions in two years.

Gov. Mike DeWine wants money for certain grants, however, and said he will go straight to the source, the Ohio Controlling Board, before budgeting begins next year.

Families of around 100 students who were told they were impractical to bus rejected the district's offer of payment in lieu of transportation.

Yost's motion in his lawsuit against CCS claims that state law requires a district to provide busing after a student challenges a transportation decision.

Families were given the option to request official timings from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. The district said as of Sept. 3, 149 students had done so.

A cease and desist letter says the district has to bus thousands of charter and non-public school students who were told they ineligible to receive transportation.

About 1,380 private school students living in district boundaries won't receive bussing this year because their travel time would take more than 30 minutes.

Once again, many of Ohio's school districts need substitute drivers and extra trips to transport all kids, and around 9% don’t have enough drivers at all.

School buses transport more than 700,000 Ohio children to and from school every day.