An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said.Sixty-two children and two adults were crowded into the bus, which had just nine seats, officials said. The driver and a teacher died along with the children, aged 5 and 6, said the director of the provincial work safety emergency office, surnamed Fan.
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When the San Francisco Unified School District curtails after-school yellow-bus transportation at Sherman Elementary School, Michael Eaton might have to find another academic program for his son.Eaton and his partner both work full-time jobs in the Financial District, which makes it impossible to leave work in the middle of the day to transport their son from his Marina district school to his Pacific Heights after-school program.
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Thousands of schoolchildren will have to find a new way to travel to school next year after the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education voted to cut bus service by more than 50 percent.The cuts — which affect roughly 3,300 general-education children in elementary and middle school grades — will be phased in over the next three years and could save the district roughly $1.9 million annually.It costs the district $100,000 annually to run each yellow bus.
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Examiner Staff Writer
03/18/10 11:00 PM
Some Board of Education members want to revisit a plan to charge students for rides on school buses to help close an epic budget deficit.Another idea being considered for the San Francisco Unified School District is to significantly slash bus routes to free up money.Several board members agreed the ideas were worth looking into to offset other drastic cuts being proposed to fill a two-year, $113 million hole.
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