4/29/08

Columbus Dispatch Blog

Simone Sebastian

Here’s more detail on today’s story about how a shrinking pot of state money and the rising cost of school buses is plaguing districts. (Pick up today’s Dispatch or read it on Dispatch.com.)

Some of the wealthier school districts – Bexley, Dublin, New Albany-Plain – haven’t relied much on state funding to buy school buses as theirs age. And their buses are pretty new.

Here’s a quick look at the age of fleets in a few districts.

I asked all 16 Franklin County districts how many buses they had and what the average age was. Not all responded. (Grandview Heights did, to remind me that they don’t have busing.)