Contractors will also start using part-time drivers to give full-time drivers more availability. Sign-on bonuses are being offered too.

The companies that provide the district with bus driving services are working to make the job more attractive.

Between the two of them, Clay County school bus drivers, Rhonda Bradshaw and Yvonne Billings have driven school buses for 13 years. But they still get excited for the first day of each new school year.