Uintah Basin Standard | 1960-09-22 | Page 3 | Policy Changes on Bus Use Made by District

Policy changes on bus use made by district A new policy on use of school buses and charges the schools of the district was adopted last week by the Duchesne County Board of reports As recommended by the principals of the three small high schools of the Alta-mont l the Board approved the use of school buses furnish free transportation for participating students to and from school connected activities of the Uintah Basin school had to pay 15 cents a mile for use of the buses on student and remains 15 cents a mile for buses used for non-participating The new policy allows free use of the buses by the schools on any trip taken in connection with the instructional This includes speech commercial music track and ball It excludes free use of buses for student spectators at these Stutz explained that since the buses are financed partly from state state regulations govern the operation of these buses and this prohibits the use of the vehicles to transport non-school groups That is why the school district must turn down such requests from various organizations for use of school