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This Resolution requests the Department of Education to significantly expand transportation services within the Pearl City School District, acknowledging a long-standing bus driver shortage that has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and has left numerous students on a waitlist for essential school bus service. The resolution outlines several key actions the Department of Education is urged to take, including immediately serving students on the waitlist, identifying schools with inadequate transportation, using smaller buses and reducing minimum rider requirements to increase accessibility, improving communication with parents about transportation needs, creating a training program for bus drivers, establishing a driver pool by partnering with various community groups, and considering staggered school start times to better manage student transportation.