The Mat-Su Borough School District announced Tuesday afternoon that most schools will be without bus service again on Wednesday.
School bus drivers strike outside the bus barn in Wasilla on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The bus drivers walked off the job in the middle of the school day after failing to come to a contract agreement with Durham School Services, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District's new transportation contractor.
The strike, called midmorning Tuesday, left many schools and families in the district of more than 19,000 students scrambling for a way to get children home Tuesday afternoon. Schools told families they would need to pick up students on what was suddenly being treated as a “no-bus” day. Administrators warned of traffic tie-ups.
Schools in Mat-Su will remain open for in-person learning rather than shifting to remote plans, officials said following the strike announcement.That leaves parents and guardians responsible for transporting students to and from school, as well as for school-related activities, the district said in a statement late Tuesday morning.
With schools slated to be open Wednesday, just Glacier View School, Susitna Valley Junior/Senior High, Talkeetna Elementary, Trapper Creek Elementary and Willow Elementary will have bus service, according to an update Tuesday afternoon from the district. Drivers chose to strike after they picked up students on their morning routes, the union said, acknowledging that the strike “will inconvenience families” but asking that the community “stand with school bus workers in solidarity.”
Word of the last-minute change of transportation plans for students rippled through school families as working parents and guardians juggled jobs with pickups.
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