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Kallison, James M., Jr.; Stader, David L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
An alarmingly high percentage of recent high school graduates are not prepared to succeed in college-level courses, and the impact of this educational shortcoming is substantial. Underprepared college students incur a monetary cost of enrolling in remedial courses, and states and taxpayers subsidize much of the overall cost of developmental…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Community Colleges, Bus Transportation, Achievement Gains
Ash, Katie – Education Week, 2008
This article reports that with fuel prices soaring nationwide, reaching more than $4 for each gallon of gas or diesel, school districts are struggling to supplement transportation-budget shortfalls and find ways to offset the increasing costs as a new school year approaches. Now districts--most of whose buses run on diesel fuel--are scrambling to…
Descriptors: Fuels, Costs, Bus Transportation, School Buses
Wightman, Marj – Texas Outlook, 1970
Account of the progress and problems relative to the desegregation of a South Texas school district. (DM)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Bus Transportation, Educational Planning, Government Role

Turner, Lynn – Catalyst for Change, 1972
Describes two Federal court cases affecting school finance. Discusses Texas' extensive accountability network program. (JF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Court Litigation

Felice, Lawrence G.; Richardson, Ronald L. – Integrated Education, 1977
Concludes that the positive effects of desegregated schools for minority students are dependent on the quality of the school to which they are bused. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Effects
Borja, Rhea R. – Education Week, 2005
Five days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, a convoy of 142 air-conditioned school buses from the 209,000-student Texas district rumbled to life. Loaded with food and bottled water, staffed by 350 school employees, and accompanied by bus-repair trucks and a phalanx of school police cars, the yellow buses traveled all night to reach the…
Descriptors: Employees, Bus Transportation, Natural Disasters, Weather
Evans, Charles L. – 1973
The Fort Worth Independent School District continued its court-ordered desegregation plan implemented in 1971-72. The evaluated design utilized in 1971-72 was extended to include bused black students in grade 3 as well as those in grades 4 and 5, and to ascertain any effects on the achievement of white third, fourth, and fifth grade students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Black Students
Evans, Charles L. – 1973
School integration was accomplished by three major procedures: (1) Faculties at all schools were integrated; (2) Two all-black high schools and two all-black middle schools were closed. Students were provided with free transportation to predominantly white schools; and (3) 27 elementary schools were combined into six clusters, each cluster…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Texas State Dept. of Public Safety, Austin. – 1987
The safe and effective transportation of pupils to and from schol is an integral part of a sound educational program. This course guide is a study and reference tool for use in a training course designed to promote the competency of school bus drivers throughout the State of Texas. Unit 1 of the guide provides an overview of the transportation…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Competence, Driver Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1975
This study evaluates the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused black students. Differences in achievement gains or losses are hypothesized as being both a function of bused students attitudes toward busing and desegregation and of the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. Findings from data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Black Attitudes, Bus Transportation