Friday, April 15, 2011

High Gas Prices Pressure School Budgets

School budgets are due to state officials today, but many districts said they’re having a difficult time planning with increasing gas prices and a freeze on state support. Gov. Branstad's projections of flat allowable growth rates for all schools for the next two years have officials searching for ways to cut back and move funds around. And the rising cause of fuel is making it much harder. So far this year, the Des Moines Public Schools have purchased 203,000 gallons of diesel fuel, which has cost them more than $545,000.

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