The Transportation Department was featured on SchoolBusFleet.com for their student mechanics program.
Check out an excerpt from the article:
St. Francis Area Schools in Minnesota also created a similar initiative. Peggy Tesdahl, transportation supervisor, calls it a feeder program, in which students in the district's high school shop class come in during the final hour of the day to work in the school bus shop. They typically have one student at a time, and now have hired two graduates: one part-time evening mechanic and one full-time mechanic from the program.
“We hope that we get these young kiddos interested in a shop trade, and hopefully they come here and help us out,” Tesdahl said. “It's been a tough road finding mechanics, so we feel that this is a good way to train our kids while they're in school, then hire them.”
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