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A plan to restore Jefferson County Public Schools, magnet and traditional bus routes is still on track, but it's not a done deal.

Superintendent Marty Pollio says it will all depend on how many public transit driver sign up to drive.

JCPS buses.

JCPS struck a deal with the city's public transportation system or TARP, as it's called after it announced plans to lay off as many as 70 drivers to cut costs at last night's school board meeting Pollio said he expects all 70 drivers to come on board but that the district could not say which routes, if any, will be added.

>> We'll have very intentional and specific ways about making sure students in our media's geographic areas would get transportation to those 7.30, magnets.

But once again, it is contingent upon the fact that we would have these drivers, 70 of them on the start of school.

The other thing that we will be doing as well if it was a JCPS school bus driver before we may put them right into service.

But most of that, our drivers that will be coming over will spend the first couple of weeks.

One ride alongs with our bus drivers.

We need to ensure before we add anything that these are drivers that are going to stick with us for the long term.

>> Pollio said they will know July 1st, how many drivers have