Article: SCHOOL SYSTEM CONFRONTS FUEL COSTS

Article: Footing the Bill; Why should Montgomery County students pay for ...
The Washington Post;  June 25, 2008 ;     551 words ...ANYONE WHO drives these days knows the pain of $4 (plus)-a- gallon gasoline. There's no question, then, that a system using more than 3 million gallons a year is facing some real hurt. But the idea being floated by Montgomery County school officials to extend students' walking distances is, at

Article: Fewer routes, shared rides could save fuel costs
Progress-Index, The Petersburg, Va.;  August 29, 2008 ;     481 words ... ... Schools. Despite the changes, the school system has still had to budget more money for fuel costs. In fiscal year 2007-08, Petersburg ... reducing fuel consumption. The school system also bought four new buses that ...

Article: ROANOKE COUNTY MAY ASSIST SCHOOL SYSTEM IN NEED OF ...
Roanoke Times & World News;  September 15, 2005 ;     621 words ... ... sense to do the same for a school system that has taken in a high ... director of operations for the school system, updated the board on fuel costs. Last week at a work session ... Flora reported that the school system could face a deficit of ...

Article: SOARING FUEL COSTS HIT SCHOOLS
Roanoke Times & World News;  September 9, 2005 ;     486 words ... ... we can do something about consumption." Montgomery Board Chairwoman Tacy Newell-Foutz said fuel costs ultimately will be paid by the school system and its students, either through higher taxes, cut services or a charge to ride the bus. In ...

Article: Schools bracing for bus fuel costs; Other budget ...
The Washington Times;  July 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... projected its fuel costs for next year ... students in its school system - spent about ... 8 million for fuel costs during the 2007 ... County Council for fuel costs, she said, and ... Maryland's largest school system, enrolling nearly ...

Article: Officials concerned about increased fuel costs for ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  August 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... It's not the first time the school system has had to make some changes ... fuel prices. Beckett said the school system experienced the same problem ... 000 to make up for increased fuel costs, causing them to revisit the ...

Article: FUEL COSTS A TOUGH FOE\
Post-Tribune (IN);  June 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... re going to keep it the same," he said. The high school athletic fuel costs at Chesterton are a pittance of the $500,000 it costs for fuel for the whole school system. That includes field trips for elementary, junior high and high school ...