New York City plans to pay for Ubers, Lyfts and MetroCards to get tens of thousands of students to school if it fails to strike a deal with the yellow-bus-drivers union, officials said Monday.

Big Apple schools Chancellor David Banks spelled out the costly backup plan, which includes paying for thousands of rideshares for disabled students and migrant children — as well as for their parents to and from work from the schools during drop-offs and pick-ups.

Still, he said he remains “hopeful” that an agreement can be made with Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union before the first day of school Sept. 7.

“We are pushing for a resolution before the start of the school year. In the meantime, we are working hard to plan for every alternative transportation service we will provide if a strike is called, and make families aware,” Banks said in a statement.

A city school-bus drivers’ strike would be the first in a decade and affect more than 80,000 students on 4,400 routes across the five boroughs.

If the drivers strike, the city Department of Education said it will provide every family with the option of emergency MetroCards, which will come loaded with a total of four trips with transfers — for a student and a guardian — between 5:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays. Schools will be tasked with handing out the cards.

Families who have a student with a disability, which is about 25,000 of the student population, will be eligible for up to $200 per day in reimbursements if they take taxis or rideshares or use their own car to get students to school.

The reimbursement rate is set at 58 cents per mile.

The DOE will also prepay for rideshares to get some of those students to and from school with their parents. The parents will be able to then use those rides to get to work and back to school to scoop their kids up in the evening.

Students in temporary housing, including migrants, or in foster care will be eligible for rideshares, according to the DOE’s website.

“Working families across New York City should not, and do not have to worry about getting their children to school every day,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “This administration is here to help ensure our children continue their educations uninterrupted.”

The city says it is also exploring other options with just over a week to go before the new years starts.

Local 1181, which voted earlier this summer to strike if no deal was made, declined comment to The Post on Monday.