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Sophie Zamarripa; Indira Dammu; Bonnie O'Keefe – Bellwether, 2024
Costs for transporting public school students have risen 33% from 2008 to 2018, reaching, on average, $1,152 per student transported. The reasons behind this shift include higher labor costs, various forms of school choice requiring longer commutes from students' neighborhoods, and environmentally friendly upgrades to bus fleets. As a result, some…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Barriers, Access to Education, Bus Transportation
Modaffari, Jamil; Alleyne, Akilah – Center for American Progress, 2022
School buildings across America are crumbling. According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 54 percent of U.S. school districts need to update or completely replace multiple building systems in their schools. As a result of decades of underfunding school infrastructure, national spending for K-12 school buildings…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Facilities Improvement, Federal Aid, Minority Group Students