Franklin Twp. charges $475 to ride bus Excerpt:
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - $475 is what itll cost to have one child ride the bus for a year in Franklin Township. The school district no longer offers bus transportation, and theyve leased their buses and transportation center, too. Weve sold those buses to CIESC with two provisions, says Franklin Township Superintendent Walter Bourke. The first provision is they can only transfer Franklin Township students. The second provision is that if we want the buses back, we can buy them back for what we sold them for which was $1. The failure of a referendum meant the district had to make extreme cuts from the transportation budget. We warned people what would happen, said Superintendent Bourke. Weve vowed to keep money in the general fund in place. That money pays for teachers and academics, not transportation. Transportation was once a property tax supported service and it has now become a user fee. This resulted in the sale of the districts fleet of school buses to CIESC. A non-refundable registration fee of $20.00 per student is required with each student application. The annual transportation fee for one student in a family is $475. The fee for each student in the family thereafter is $405 annually. A monthly payment option is also available. Executive Director of CIESC Mary Ann Dewan explained the situation this way: No one wants to charge parents for busing, but the reality is that busing is expensive. Most of the expense comes in meeting the safety regulations, paying for the fuel, hiring drivers, as well as a lot of training to help drivers understand how to work with students. Franklin Township needed a long-term solution and this is what we could do. Read more here: http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/education/franklin-twp-charges-475-to-ride-bus They are not the only ones: http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/North-Texas-school-district-moves-forward-with-pay-to-ride-bus-plan-125818703.html J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340975 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
