The vehicles have struggled to gain traction, but school districts are being swayed by new funding options, as well as environmental and health concerns.
The free market is pretty simple: There’s supply, there’s demand, they meet somewhere in the middle. If there’s a need, there’s a product. But sometimes, that system breaks down, as it has in the market for antibiotics.
“There really is not a staffing shortage per se,” said National Nurses United president Deborah Burger. “There’s a shortage of nurses willing to put their lives and their license and patients’ lives at risk.”