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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 05:56 AM Original message |
will high fuel prices bring an end to school busing? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. K&R- I can see the GOP ending public education completely...after all, |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I can say that |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. The rights of workers under ratified Union contracts are supposedly protected, too, |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. not in a rationial country |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. Over 75,000 children, so that's about $116 per child per year |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. say fuel prices double |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. If there were another 60 cents a day per pupil for fuel, yes, I'd say pay it |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. I don't see how it can be that cheap when subsidized bus fares are much more expensive. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That's the fuel cost, not the cost of the drivers, or bus maintenance and replacement |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. Busing (for desegregation purposes) already ended in Dayton. |
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zen_bohemian (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
10. no telling what will happen to public education |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
11. The priority should be both, |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. There are many things and programs that need bigger budgets. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
13. Are there still districts that bus for diversity? |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. All the school buses around here have been running on natural gas for decades |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
15. Tax the rich, including the big oil and there would be no budget |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
16. Considering the way that community schools have been "consolidated" into big, regional schools |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
18. In my city of Saint Paul, they're overhauling the entire system. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. The US DoD is the largest consumer of fuel on the planet n/t |
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