Public School Charges for Bus

[Dr. Shane]

ISD Approves Pay-To-Ride School Bus

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The Keller ISD school board approved a plan Monday night to charge students to ride the bus.

Under the plan, students will pay $185 a semester to ride the bus and $135 for a second child. Students who get free and reduced lunches will have to pay $100...

Each year Keller spends between $260 and $360 per student on school bus transportation. District officials say when Keller voters rejected a 13-cent increase in the property tax rate they were left to find other ways of generating money...

The pay-to-ride plan would affect some 7,000 Keller students,who live more than two miles from school. District officials anticipate the new school bus system will save the district about $2,000,000. With the savings – and more state dollars than expected – the district hopes to rehire teachers it planned on firing.

At least two other North Texas school districts, Burleson and Northwest ISD, are also looking at pay-to-ride systems.