When they closed hundreds of West Virginia schools, state education officials promised to save millions of dollars and provide new advanced classes, without making bus rides much longer for students.
A decade later, bus times are longer than ever, few advanced courses are offered to rural students, and those savings never materialized.
Find out why in Closing Costs, a series about the legacy of school consolidation in West Virginia.
October 6, 2002
Schools chief orders report on county increase
More people work at the state Department of Education now than a decade ago, despite a sharp drop in ...
October 3, 2002
Consolidation sputters
Benefits of school consolidation touted by former state officials were almost limitless as they trie ...
September 29, 2002
After rural school closings: more administrators, scant savings and advanced courses cut
School administrators across West Virginia have reneged on promises to provide students with advance ...
September 29, 2002
This is how a tiny mountain town ended up with three gymnasiums and three public kitchens within 50 ...
September 29, 2002
When they closed high schools, county officials promised new advanced courses and more extracurricul ...
September 24, 2002
The state School Building Authority changed a decade-old policy Monday that gave more weight to econ ...
September 8, 2002
For the first time in six years, state education leaders have directed county school boards to repor ...
August 30, 2002
Bus situation intolerable
STATE guidelines say no elementary student should be on a school bus more than 30 minutes each way, ...
August 25, 2002
SNOWSHOE — Tommy Evans stood atop the 4,848-foot mountain at
6:20 a.m., waiting for the bus to arr ...
August 25, 2002
School administrators across West Virginia have repeatedly ignored transportation laws and guideline ...
August 25, 2002
School transportation costs have soared in West Virginia,
nearly doubling during the past decade, ...
August 25, 2002
Long rides also cause family, social disruption, studies say
They’re tired and cranky. They have a hard time concentrating in class. They can’t join the football ...
August 25, 2002
For today’s stories, more than 80 people were interviewed and thousands of pages of school closing d ...
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