{"id":184870,"date":"2026-05-06T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:45:07","slug":"school-district-to-contract-with-new-yellow-bus-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184870\/","title":{"rendered":"School District to contract with new yellow bus companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The School District of Philadelphia is changing yellow bus companies next school year, with one of them hiring drivers and attendants this week.<\/p>\n

Most students take SEPTA to school, but the district provides yellow bus transportation for 23,000 public, nonpublic and charter students.<\/p>\n

The school district\u2019s contracts with Durham Bus Services and other yellow bus companies expire at the end of June. Deals with several new companies, including California-based Zum<\/a>, take effect on July 1. Zum is holding a job fair in Port Richmond until Thursday. <\/p>\n

Charlotte Charbono, Zum\u2019s senior location manager, said her company is looking to hire about 250 drivers and 100 to 150 attendants, with pay for drivers starting at $30 an hour. <\/p>\n

\u201cZum currently has a zero-driver shortage at any of our locations nationwide,\u201d she said, \u201cand the reason for that is that we invest into our drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connie Leon of Port Richmond has been a school bus attendant for 25 years, and she\u2019d like to continue. That\u2019s why she was at the Zum hiring event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI filled out my application here, so what we\u2019ve got to do is wait,\u201d she said, \u201cwait for them to call me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Janice Tucker, another current bus attendant, was more straightforward. \u201cI need a job,\u201d she chuckled.<\/p>\n

Charbono said Zum also has an app that allows parents to track a bus\u2019s location in real time. \u201cIn a day and age where you can track your pizza,\u201d she said, \u201cyou should be able to track your children too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The School District of Philadelphia is changing yellow bus companies next school year, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[227,69,71,70,15775,1998,2155],"class_list":["post-184870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-buses","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}