Show The Trio Cost of Pupil Transportation h What does it cost f to transport pupils to and anti from school This Is Isan Isan Isan an important question for any community com con or county that Is planning to consolidate its Us small schools and establish large central schools schools- with or without high school courses by Ly tr transporting the p pupils at public expense Of or course costs will vm vary greatly and will wm depend much on oa weather and antl road conditions the tho size of the transportation problems the kind of transportation offeree care in business management and other thol things of ot like nature Not un until until til recent years has pupil transportation transportation tation become so much apart of ot the school program that careful studies have ha been made of Jl Its cost and of 01 tb the tut best methods methods of or managing It ft Four school districts oC of Rio Grande county Colorado In tho the year yen 22 1921 operated 41 bu busses es ami transporting on an av average rago of children dren a day covering an un entire distance of bt n miles n s. s Costs I per ter er mile ranged from to 20 26 cents with an average average of ot cents Costs Coats per child per da day rang rang- od cd d from 28 to to 34 cell cents s with a an aver an-aver- aver aver- r- r 1 s a aage i age of 95 cents per day v jl Trans Transporting loran school children chil chit J K dren In Indiana for lor the year 1922 j 23 cost at the annual rate of J l E-l I I Iper per por child or 2 20 cents per per child per per v 1 1 day f j w r I r red A report for Cor 37 typical consolidated w's 2 s t i ed d schools of Iowa where tation was WilS e carried on Ion over all types type 1 I of or roads Toads sl shows th that f the the- annual ii cost per pup l on routes wl where e h horse gorse i r drawn vehicles le are used was was' Z 3 i while on om those with motor driven vehicles it was a 1 two Twenty states reported leporte l for 3 22 22 1921 that pupils we ero a v I transported at a total cos cost of or 14 14 q i I or per pupil for tiro j year yenT Among the states reporting J were Maine Maryland ta lund I Alabama t. Indiana Minnesota Oklahoma Texas and Montana Ion ana Nearly al all the they J average I and li extreme extreme extreme ex- ex r r conditions o of the different t sections of or the United States w were rc represented so sel the average o of 32 may be accepted as a fair one for 1 the tho country at large |