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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Will fewer school days save gas?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In 2005, Gov. Sonny Perdue asked schools to close for two days to save money because of rising costs with diesel fuel. Nearly all of the state’s 181 school districts complied with this effort to conserve fuel in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Here we are a few years later and fuel prices continue to increase. Everyone is looking for ways to cut back and save.
Some Florida school districts are thinking of shortening the school week for the 2009-10 school year to make up for rising fuel costs and cuts in the budget.
“The price of gasoline doing what it’s doing, saving one day of driving hundreds of thousands of miles on a statewide basis can result in some very significant cost savings,” said Ruth Melton, director of legislative relations for the Florida School Boards Association.
What do you think of this idea? Is this something Georgia should consider?
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