Whether it's rising COVID cases, retirements, or a lack of funding, several schools are suffering from a driver shortage.

Pennsylvania is in danger of losing the school bus industry is an op-ed article released by the executive director, Mike Berk urging the importance of the school bus industry and due to the current pandemic that if we do not take extreme measures to keep the industry alive. As Pennsylvania’s school bus industry, our job is to keep the wheels on the bus going round and round. And we love what we do. Our mission is to safely transport more than 1.5 million Pennsylvania students to and from school...

In this article, The Herald interviews executive director Mike Berk about PSBA's view on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the concerns around only putting a 1/4 of the students on a school vehicle and the financial strains this will cause on all parties.  To read the full interview please click here.

Check out this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer as Particia Madej, interviews Mike Berk, executive director about the challenges of safely transporting children to school and the driver shortage being faced here in Pennsylvania.  Click Here to read the full article 

Fox 43 interviews Executive Director Mike Berk on the school bus safety concerns school bus contractors face as they prepare for school reopenings amid COVID-19.  Click here to watch the interview.

PSBA has been meeting with legislators and other state officials at every opportunity to emphasize the need to include school buses in any discussions related to school safety and security. Last week, PSBA participated in a school safety roundtable in Williamsport. As a result of our presence at that meeting, WHTM 27 News in Harrisburg reached out to PSBA Executive Director Mike Berk. See the story and interview here.

PSBA Executive Director Mike Berk was interviewed by Fox 43 News in Harrisburg on the school bus driver shortage.

As part of its Back to School series, the Carlisle Sentinel published this article on the school bus driver shortage.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, the 20th annual Operation Safe Stop will be conducted in communities across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of National School Bus Safety Week, which runs Oct. 17-21.