HIGHLIGHT: PENNSYLVANIA

Harrisburg: A proposal to construct plastic barriers around school bus drivers as a COVID-19 mitigation tactic was shot down by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. State Education Secretary Pedro Rivera had warned that transportation would be a difficult problem to solve in preparing for schools’ reopening this fall. The great majority of the state’s public school districts contract with private companies to provide bus transportation, and those companies have difficulty finding and keeping enough drivers in the best of times, said Mike Berk with the Pennsylvania School Bus Association, a trade group.

AP School buses sit parked at their terminal Friday in Zelienople, Pa.