Administrators have been forced to delay school and recruit parents to transport students as a shortage bus drivers spreads along with the latest COVID surge.

The Duval County School Board will pay a former high school teacher who displayed a Black Lives Matter flag over her classroom door $300,000 to settle a lawsuit from earlier this year.

Later this calendar year, aspiring subs will have the choice of taking a virtual course of about 20 hours - or fulfilling the traditional 60 college credit hours.

Many districts are not requiring masks on buses, but even districts that do are short drivers.