busing aside from home to school that is included in the annual budget. To make up for this at Brantley County (Ga.) Schools, groups will hold fundraisers to cover the costs of transportation, which adds up to $30 per trip plus $1.10 per mile, according to Transportation Director
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send out on field trips, including athletic trips, on any given day. Te district continues to offer the service by combining teams that are going to games and practices that are in close proximity and close times, sometimes putting two teams on one bus. But, in the end, this is just
When you are standing three feet from an original painting,
looking at the intricate detail, it captures your attention. Tere is no substitute for that experience, even with the newest and best textbooks available.❞
— Will Rose, Parkway School District in Chesterfield, Mo.
Wiley Crews. He added that the district needs company sponsors to make the trips a reality. At Katonah-Lewisboro School District in South Salem,
N.Y., budget cuts have cost the district drivers and the number of buses in its fleet, limiting the number of buses Assistant Transportation Supervisor Linda Kaplan can
one piece of a much larger puzzle. “Now is the time to decide what things are important
and what are not and can be eliminated. School trans- portation is now taking the hit on cut backs that I have never seen in the 30 years I have been in school transpor- tation,” concluded Kaplan. ■
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