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This Concurrent Resolution requests the Department of Education to expand transportation services in the Pearl City School District, acknowledging a long-standing bus driver shortage that has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and leaving many students on a waitlist. The resolution urges the Department to immediately provide bus service to waitlisted students, identify schools lacking regular transportation, and consider using smaller buses with fewer riders per route to increase options. It also calls for better communication between the Department, schools, and parents about changing transportation needs, the development of a training program for bus drivers, the creation of a driver pool by collaborating with various community groups, and the exploration of staggered school start and end times to help with transportation logistics.