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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 over a dozen students on a waitlist. The resolution urges the department to immediately provide bus service to waitlisted students, identify schools lacking transportation, use smaller buses with lower ridership requirements, improve communication with parents about changing needs, create a training program for bus drivers, establish a driver pool by collaborating with various community groups, and explore staggered school start times to better manage transportation. A Concurrent Resolution is a legislative measure passed by both houses of a legislature that does not have the force of law but expresses the will of the legislature, in this case, directing the Department of Education to take specific actions.