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Riverside cuts school busing, even to distant homes
- 09-16-2010
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By Dayna Straehley/The Press-Enterprise
Seventh- and eighth-graders' homes in Victoria Grove and Lake Mathews are 11 miles from their "neighborhood" school in Riverside's Woodcrest area, and this year there's no bus to get them there. The Riverside Unified School District cut all middle school and high school busing in March, saving $750,000 as the district closed a budget gap of more than $44 million. Last year's revenue from the state was down more than 18 percent, Deputy Superintendent Mike Fine said. (more…)
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