The Kent School District (KSD) is looking to hire about 10 to 15 more bus drivers for the 2022-2023 school year.<\/p>\n
The district’s Transportation Team will have an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Transportation Building, 25403 SE 253rd Pl. The Transportation Team will answer questions and conduct bus driver interviews for any interested candidates.<\/p>\n
Anyone interested can apply online to join the Kent School District (KSD) Transportation <\/a>Team<\/a>, transporting about 8,500 students to and from school daily.<\/p>\n The pay is $25.41 to $30.03 per hour for the part-time positions.<\/p>\n The duties will be to safely transport students to and from school and school-sponsored activities. Most work hours are approximately 5:45 to 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n The district has 125 bus drivers and hopes to hire 10 to 15 more this school year, according to a school district spokesperson.<\/p>\n KSD, like many neighboring districts, is experiencing a bus driver shortage and is always looking for drivers, according to a district statement . Qualified applicants will receive training provided by the district’s Transportation Team. The driver training program takes approximately four weeks and combines classroom learning with behind-the-wheel bus driving experience.<\/p>\n Bus driver training consists of:<\/p>\n • Completing the CDL Class B driving test<\/p>\n • Receiving passenger and school bus endorsements<\/p>\n • Learning school bus procedures and legal requirements<\/p>\n • Understanding route and map reading<\/p>\n Additionally, candidates who complete training and begin driving for KSD will receive a $1,000 completion incentive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pay is $25.41 to $30.03 per hour for part-time positions; open house set for Sept. 28 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":60331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60330"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}