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Published on: 5/12/2008
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"We can't continue to offer all the services we've always offered and function without losing money," said Terry Simpson, superintendent of Guthrie Public Schools.It typically costs hundreds of dollars to fill up the fuel tank of a school bus, which gets less than 10 miles per gallon of fuel.
"We've got to do something to be more efficient with this," Simpson said.
This fall, the 3,300-student district will implement a new transportation policy that does away with bus routes for students who live within 1.5 miles of the school they attend - a policy that has already been implemented by school districts in Claremore, Crescent, Norman, Sapulpa and Moore, Simpson said.