Some magnet school students in Jefferson County will be able to take the bus when the new school year starts.

Details in tonight's look at education news.

Louisville Mayor Greg Greenberg announced this morning some magnet school bus routes were being restored through an agreement between Jefferson County Public Schools and Tork, the city's public transportation provider.

In April, Jefferson County Public Schools voted to end bussing for most magnet schools in response to a severe bus driver shortage.

But as the district struggles to find bus drivers, the city has had to cut back on public transportation routes.

And Mayor Greenburg says that offered up an opportunity.

Bringing in task drivers to fill in some of the gaps.

However, he and other city leaders caution this is only a temporary solution.

JCPenney needs approximately 200 bus drivers to completely solve their current bus driver shortage challenges.

However, Dr. Polio shared with our group that with 70 approximately 70 drivers, JCPenney could restore some of the magnet bus routes that some of our most in need families and children rely on and deserve.

So if Tariq moved up the timeline for its plan route frequency reduction plan, 70 bus drivers would be available to apply and take on these needed JCP routes.

It was much more complicated than any of us who are working on this thought.

It took a lot of negotiations, a lot of open mindedness, a lot of commitment from everyone that you see here with us today.

But everyone who was at our table from Tariq to JCPenney's, our union leaders, JCPenney's board members, pastors, metro council leaders, the Louisville Urban League, other community leaders were all committed to finding a solution.

Now we will all state very clearly This is a short term solution.

It will not fix everything for the long term.

However, it will help our most in need students for the upcoming school year, and it will give us more time to continue working to find long term solutions for JCPenney, for Tariq, for our entire city.

This is not a long term solution.

This is a short term solution or a Band-Aid of the issue that we are having nationally with bus drivers.

And so this gives some reprieve over the coming year of which we can get our neediest kids to school.

But I do want to say long term, this will remain an issue in our community and we are all going to have to work together to make sure that we accomplish what we need to, which is get more bus drivers in our yellow school busses to get schools on, to get school on time.

I'm a big fan of the saying that we should never let the perfect be the enemy of the good in today's solution is not perfect.

We have not restored equity and opportunity for all of our students in JCPenney's.

But today is a good day.

Today is a good first step.

And so we are going to celebrate the good.

The Park Board will vote on the agreement Friday.

City officials say they will announce what routes are being restored once they know how many task drivers have applied.