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closeBus service at Templeton Unified School District will cease next year as the district continues its struggle to balance the budget while state funding falls short.
By eliminating bus routes, which currently serve 300 North County students, the district will save $510,000 in the 2009-10 school year, Superintendent Deborah Bowers said.
The district could consider bring buses back if the budget situation improves, she added.
Three shuttles, at no cost to students, will run between Templeton Elementary and Vineyard Elementary schools before and after school for approximately 200 students to help buffer the loss.
Bus service for special education will remain, as the law requires, on four district routes.
*Statewide, schools are scrambling to find cuts where they can. After voters knocked down Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s May initiatives intended to help the budget recover, many school officials aren’t certain how deep cuts could go.
Templeton is currently working to determine how much money will be cut from its $18 million general fund next year, Bowers said, with bus service representing “one of many cuts across all segments of the district.”
Templeton’s bus driver pool will decrease from 11 to seven staffers next year, Bowers said, while three additional drivers will shorten their workdays to three hours a day.
Earlier this year, Shandon Joint Unified School District considered eliminating its bus service, officials said, but later decided to keep it.
- Tonya Strickland
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