Source: Max Reinhart, News-Herald, June 26, 2012

Tuesday’s Wickliffe School Board meeting featured comments from both sides about the possibility of the district switching to privatized school bus services. Matthew Molek, vice president of Ohio Association of Public Schools Employees local 196, which includes district bus drivers, asked the board to hold off on considering privatizing bussing, at least until the union’s current contract runs up. …In 2008, Madison Local Schools made the switch by hiring Community Bus Services. The company manages personnel and also handles maintenance of the vehicles…. Other nearby districts have since considered the option but not approved it, some citing good working relationships with their OAPSE workers, which also includes food service workers and other classified staff.