Thousands of Broward County students returned to classrooms Monday marking the official start of the 2025-2026 academic year.

Summer is over and so are student’s and bus driver’s days of sleeping in.

7News cameras captured drivers arriving at one of the district’s bus depots in Oakland Park around 5 a.m. Monday, where they conducted their safety checks ahead of rolling out the driveway to start their routes and begin picking up children.

The district is ready to welcome close to 250,000 students and the theme for this academic year is embracing technology.

“We are the first K-12 district in the nation, and not just in the nation but in the world that has adopted Microsoft 365 Copilot; an AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool in the Microsoft Suite that’s going to assist us to become more e

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