GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Alternative Energy News and Green Products » August 2008 http://www.greenenergyforearth.com Green Events, Green Homes, Green Real Estate, Green Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind, Hydroelectric, Hybrid, Biofuels, Geothermal, Wave Power, Electric Vehicles, Energy Conservation, GREEN ENERGY JOBS Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:23:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 ENERGY CONSERVATION AND SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTION http://www.greenenergyforearth.com/2008/10/29/energy-conservation-and-school-bus-transportion/ http://www.greenenergyforearth.com/2008/10/29/energy-conservation-and-school-bus-transportion/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:55:32 +0000 abster2008 http://www.greenenergyforearth.com/?p=818 Crowded classrooms, outdated textbooks and technology, mounting deficits, and mass staff layoffs are second in importance to consolidating current bus routes for district schools to save fuel.  School districts around the country are facing the same struggling economy and less yearly fiscal budget.   State budgets continue to decline.  No Child Left Behind Act is becoming increasing important as the cost of school lunches and diesel fuel rise.  School districts are discussing preventative bus maintenance, field trip coordination and better training for bus drivers to improve the school bus transportation system and to save fuel. 

 

Information from Education Week – June through August 2008

 

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