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The Poway Unified School District has received the first of its 28 new electric school buses to transport thousands of students in a more cost effective and environmentally friendly manner, officials said.
Tim Purvis, Poway Unified’s Director of Transportation, has been doing this for 38 years and has never seen anything like it.
Poway Unified said fuel costs jumped 71% since January
The soaring price of gas is forcing some local school districts to pay more than $100,000 extra in fuel costs.
Mirroring a national issue, many local school districts are seeing a bus driver shortage. This decline is causing bus routes to be cancelled and imposing wait lists