Transport for charter schools costing Ohio taxpayers

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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A newspaper is reporting that taxpayers
are largely footing the bill for public school buses that have to drive
farther to transport students attending charter schools.
State
officials have forced traditional public schools to traverse their
cities to pick up and deliver kids to privately run charter schools,
often while cutting transportation to their own kids.
The Akron Beacon-Journal (http://bit.ly/1pE9zR1
) analyzed statewide data and determined that it costs about 44 percent
more per child to deliver the charter school attendees door to door.
A
child attending a traditional public school and transported on a
district bus cost on average $4.30 per day in 2012. For a charter-school
student, it was $6.18 — or $1.88 more per day.
Since then, 22,000 more kids have been enrolled at the state’s charter schools.
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Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A newspaper is reporting that taxpayers
are largely footing the bill for public school buses that have to drive
farther to transport students attending charter schools.
State
officials have forced traditional public schools to traverse their
cities to pick up and deliver kids to privately run charter schools,
often while cutting transportation to their own kids.
The Akron Beacon-Journal (http://bit.ly/1pE9zR1
) analyzed statewide data and determined that it costs about 44 percent
more per child to deliver the charter school attendees door to door.
A
child attending a traditional public school and transported on a
district bus cost on average $4.30 per day in 2012. For a charter-school
student, it was $6.18 — or $1.88 more per day.
Since then, 22,000 more kids have been enrolled at the state’s charter schools.
___
Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.

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