Tuscaloosa County Schools hosting bus driver sessions Tuesday
Tuscaloosa County Schools bus driver sessions By Ugochi Iloka | May 11, 2021 at 6:25 AM CDT - Updated May 11 at 8:21 AM
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - The Tuscaloosa County School System is actively seeking bus drivers and bus aides, with immediate positions available for hire. To help you gain the certifications for driving a bus, they provide all the hands-on training needed. A Class B CDL with passenger and school bus endorsements, alongside your State of Alabama School Bus Operator’s Certificate, will be obtained when training is complete.
Insurance and retirement benefits are included with your pay. There are full-time work schedules and solid part-time jobs available. Drivers and aides enjoy holidays, summers, weekends, and nights off.
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I recently ran across this vintage photo of a one-room schoolhouse in Florida (St. John’s County) for Black children. My mind immediately flashed to my deceased parents who often told stories of walking barefoot to their one-room schoolhouse in the Piney Woods of Jefferson County near Tallahassee.
Then I thought of Gainesville For All’s ongoing effort to open a high-quality early learning center at Metcalfe Elementary School that would serve mostly poor and Black children who live nearby. I was saddened.
It seems that so much of the progress made by African Americans in past generations has been lost. Since the Jim Crow days of my parents’ youth notable gains were made, including those by my baby boomer generation. We narrowed the achievement gap between black and white students sharply in the 1970s and the first half of the ‘80s.
Come October, Gainesville s oldest and youngest residents will have unlimited free rides on city buses.
Starting Oct. 1, people younger than 18 and those 65 and older will no longer be charged to ride Gainesville Regional Transit System.
Monday night, the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization for the Gainesville urban area voted to adopted the yearlong pilot program, with the city and county each pitching in $115,000.
That is the estimated revenue the bus system will lose by not charging those passengers for rides.
City Commissioner Harvey Ward said he hopes the fare-free rides become permanent after the pilot project.
“It is an investment in our children, a repayment of a lifetime of service for our seniors,” he said earlier this week. “I believe transit has a democratizing influence. Number one, if lots of different people ride the bus, that is a good thing. And the easier we make it to ride the bus the less friction we put out there between somebody