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Ohio’s public schools are still struggling with a bus driver shortage that’s gone on for years. Before the pandemic, Ohio had 25,706 active bus drivers. By August of this year, there were 18,817 bus drivers employed by schools. Public schools are required by law to transport private school students. More than 66,500 nonpublic and charter school students were bused by public schools in the 2023-24 school year, which is the most recent data available. Some districts are now running more routes for non-public students than their own students. I talked with Doug Palmer, the former transportation consultant for the Ohio School Boards Association, about how the shortage started and where schools go from here.