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CPS [Chicago Public Schools] talking to Lyft, Uber after bus drivers quit over vaccine mandate
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 8/30/2021 | Nader Issa

Posted on 08/30/2021 6:10:25 PM PDT by simpson96

As thousands of Chicago Public Schools families scrambled to find transportation to the first day of school Monday because of a mass bus driver resignation that officials attributed to anger over a vaccine mandate, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her administration is in talks with rideshare companies to take children to their schools.

The move would be highly unusual and could cause yet another set of dilemmas to sort through as parents figure out how to get their kids to classes.

About 2,100 students, including 990 in special education, were given no more than two days’ notice that their bus route no longer existed. District officials said they received word Friday from the private companies with which they contract for bus services that 73 drivers had resigned because they refused to abide by CPS’ vaccine mandate, which requires all employees and contractors to get shots by Oct. 15. The requirement was announced more than two weeks ago.(snip)

Though the district received late notice about the 73 drivers resigning, CPS already knew there was an overall shortage of more than 400 drivers. CPS had adjusted to set up routes for the approximately 14,500 students who use school buses, but the existing shortage meant the district was headed into the school year operating on thin ice if a situation arose like the resignations last week. The district now has 770 drivers — about 500 fewer than what’s needed, officials said.

CPS is offering families $1,000 upfront and $500 monthly for a travel reimbursement until the problems are fixed.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: arth; beatlejuice; beetlejuice; bus; chicago; education; groot; vaccine
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To: xp38

Yes! So the school bus drivers put up a picket line and the teachers won’t cross it.


21 posted on 08/30/2021 7:09:27 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

God willing.


22 posted on 08/30/2021 7:18:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: kiryandil

I thought the Mayor is Beetlejuice and her dyke is Groot?...


23 posted on 08/30/2021 7:20:06 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: simpson96

Sure, put kids in cars with strangers.


24 posted on 08/30/2021 7:21:36 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (The mob is the mother of tyrants.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Watch some bastard in a black robe issue an edict ordering the bus drivers to get the shot and go back to work.


25 posted on 08/30/2021 7:26:31 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The First Amendment Doesn't Care About Your Feelings)
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To: Openurmind

“How many kids are going to disappear? Lyft and Uber is a perfectly safe environment for kids right?”

exactly the same thing that i was thinking ... we had a spate of murders by lyft/uber drivers in our area a couple of years ago; i can’t imagine the horror that might happen to school children with such an unsafe approach ...


26 posted on 08/30/2021 7:28:08 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: simpson96

The Great Reset is gonna be tough.

They are full on.


27 posted on 08/30/2021 7:30:37 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: EEGator

Groot and beetlejuice are one in the same.


28 posted on 08/30/2021 7:32:05 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: eyedigress

But the black one looks like Beetlejuice, not Groot.
The 6’6” white dyke looks like Groot...


29 posted on 08/30/2021 7:33:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

The Chicago cops call her Groot.


30 posted on 08/30/2021 7:34:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Reno89519

“are the drivers vetted to be transporting kids, etc.”

My neighbor is a Uber driver (or was). From what was explained to me around 2 years ago, they CANNOT pick-up NOR transport children unless accompanied by a parent or guardian due to the strict CA child protection laws (supposedly). Even if the adult used his/her account to pick-up their child from somewhere, they can’t do it or Uber will terminate them.


31 posted on 08/30/2021 7:34:12 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: EEGator

32 posted on 08/30/2021 7:39:50 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: eyedigress

33 posted on 08/30/2021 7:42:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: eyedigress


34 posted on 08/30/2021 7:43:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: simpson96

Mandates “circled back” to bite Beetlejuice in the ass.


35 posted on 08/30/2021 7:51:52 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: MercyFlush

Can’t they quit


36 posted on 08/30/2021 7:52:09 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: EEGator

Her dyke looks like Mittens Romney in drag


37 posted on 08/30/2021 8:06:10 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't. )
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To: HP8753

Have they ever been seen at the same time and place?...


38 posted on 08/31/2021 4:04:36 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: simpson96

What a great idea. Having other people’s kids driven by people you don’t know from Adam’s housecat.

Meanwhile, bet Chicago pols and bureaucrats are having their kids chauffeured by staff.


39 posted on 08/31/2021 4:10:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Judges these days seem to think they can order any tyranny they want. And too damned many Americans just blithely go along with it.

These fools would have approved of the Holocaust if some benighted traffic court judge in Elgin, Illinois had ordered it.


40 posted on 08/31/2021 10:14:03 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The First Amendment Doesn't Care About Your Feelings)
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