Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on Hawai‘i’s runaway school bus costs. Hawai‘i school bus companies say rising health-care and fuel costs are only two of many reasons they are now charging so much more to drive
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on Hawai‘i’s runaway school bus costs.
Hawai‘i school bus companies say rising health-care and fuel costs are only two of many reasons they are now charging so much more to drive kids to and from school.
School bus contract prices with the Department of Education have doubled since 2005, taking a toll on parents’ pocketbooks and the school district’s budget. Civil Beat has been examining what’s behind the soaring costs in its series, Taken for a Ride. Records over the past 11 years show that school bus costs started rising sharply in 2006, and contractors abruptly stopped bidding against each other two years later, in 2008.
Read the whole story at Civil Beat.
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