During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.

Carise and her parents found out two bus routes, including hers, were cut this year. They were angry that they found out on Friday, August 18. School started on Monday, August 21.

Barnes said, “In all my years of driving a school bus, if you have a child in elementary school, or wherever, and they get off the bus, you say, ‘Baby, come up here, let’s see what’s going on.

New Jersey school bus accident that injured 5 remains under investigation 01:58. A school bus crash on I-195 in the Monmouth County town of Wall Township sent five people to a hospital and shut ...