Schools Will Get Hit Hard

Fuel bills will hit schools hard this upcoming year, no doubt.  One school district in Texas has started replacing its diesel buses with propane buses.   But fuel expenses have not been the main cost driver of skyrocketing public education costs.  When fuel prices were going down from 2001 to 2004, Vermont public schools were spending 18 percent more.  Hugh Kemper has correctly identified the main cost driver: staff.   

Given the price of fuel, school administrators will absolutely have to hold the line on staff increases over the next year and moving forward.