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mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
5. How much do schools pay to run their school bus system?
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 10:57 AM
Jul 2014

It still amazes me that we have all these yellow school buses purely dedicated to transporting our children to and from school... and that's all they do.

In Guildford Borough, England, a student who goes to school by bus would usually catch a bus that normally does public transport duties when it's not taking students to and from school. Signs are put on the bus when it's on school duty and the start/end point is the school. There are some exceptions where regular bus routes will deviate to/from a school on school days and students catch those normal buses instead.

The student doesn't pay the fare, because they present a school provided bus pass.

So in Guilford County, NC, would it be feasible for this 0.25% sales tax to fund city buses but in return the city bus systems have to provide school bus routes? That way, the 0.25% can still make its way to the education budget as the cost for transporting the students is reallocated to education. The cost of running the bus is already paid for with the extra tax revenue ... so why not?

Or am I reading this all wrong? What am I missing?

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