Schools
North Hills Readies For Bus Driver Strike
Bus drivers are scheduled to strike at midnight. How will 4,600 district students get to school?
ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA —North Hills School District will release a plan Tuesday morning on how to provide transportation to some 4,600 students after the union representing district bus drivers authorized a strike. The district does not have classes today.
Members of Teamsters Local 249 that represents the bus drivers rejected a contract offer from ABC Transit, the district's transportation contractor. The strike will take effect at midnight.
The district said in a release Monday night that transportation services will not be available beginning Wednesday for all North Hills students and private and parochial students served by ABC Transit drivers.
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Superintendent Patrick Mannarino said at a school board meeting last week that the plan coming today does not involve educating students online until the labor dispute is settled.
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