{"id":253612,"date":"2026-05-01T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:13:22","slug":"ocps-considers-using-vans-to-help-with-school-pick-up-using-vans-to-help-with-school-pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253612\/","title":{"rendered":"OCPS considers using vans to help with school pick up using vans to help with school pick up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Orange County Public Schools discussed how using vans to help get kids to and from school could help with current budget constraints, and bus driver shortages. School bus drivers are required to have their commercial driver&#8217;s license, while a van would not require that. The district has already cut positions and budgets to help with the financial issues. The proposal was discussed during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 29, 2026 7:07pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Public Schools discussed how using vans to help get kids to and from school could help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-253612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}