Restructuring schools: Longer bus routes take toll on children, budgets in rural school districts

In rural areas of Oklahoma, school district consolidation can mean long, tiring bus rides for schoolchildren and thousands of dollars in fuel and insurance costs for districts.

 
BY CELIA AMPEL | Modified: July 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm | Published: July 29, 2012   

Jaelin Cox, 6, attended prekindergarten three miles from her home in rural Cimarron County. She would get on the bus at 8 a.m. and be home a little after 3 p.m.

photo - A school bus makes its morning route on a dusty county road in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Oklahoman Archive photo
A school bus makes its morning route on a dusty county road in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Oklahoman Archive photo

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Then Plainview Elementary School District closed in June 2011, sending about two dozen students to surrounding districts.

Now Jaelin takes the bus about 25 miles to Boise City for school,...
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