I don't know if this is still happening, but there have definitely been issues with bus driver shortages. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/there-s-a...

"hey, so I know the county board is cutting the maxed out education budget by 20% but hear me out, lets not do that and increase it by 3% permanently. I yield my time."

One bus can’t be in two places at once, no matter how many drivers you have.

That 3% already includes busses, maintenance, fuel etc.

Amortized. If you wanted to double the bus fleet at once, that would be a heck of a budgetary challenge.

The physical buss represents ~1 year worth of the cost of bussing students up front. Financing that isn’t a major issue for most local governments.

Again assuming there is some net benefit to the economy to offset this cost.