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<title>Education agency grows while enrollment shrinks</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Broken promises</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Benefits of school consolidation touted by former state officials were almost limitless as they tried to convince reluctant parents that closing nearby schools and busing children to far-off consolidated schools were in the children�s best interest.B...]]></description>
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<title>Broken Promises</title>
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<title>Pendleton school could have been fixed up, some say</title>
<description><![CDATA[     CIRCLEVILLE � This is how a tiny mountain town ended up with three gymnasiums and three public kitchens within 50 yards of each other, all in the name of saving money.   Twelve years ago, county school officials said they had to close historic Circl...]]></description>
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<title>Consolidating elementary schools a hard sell</title>
<description><![CDATA[     When they closed high schools, county officials promised new advanced courses and more extracurricular activities for their students.  They had less to offer elementary students whose schools faced the consolidation ax.  New computer labs, in some cas...]]></description>
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<title>Bus times will carry equal weight</title>
<description><![CDATA[     The state School Building Authority changed a decade-old policy Monday that gave more weight to economies of scale than to how long children ride on the bus.   Since it began in 1989, the authority gave more weight to projects that met certain size re...]]></description>
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<title>State to require annual bus time reports</title>
<description><![CDATA[         WELCH - The state Department of Education plans to require county transportation directors to report the time students spend on buses every year, state Superintendent David Stewart said Wednesday.   &quot;Well develop a method to collect travel ti...]]></description>
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<title>State to track student bus times</title>
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<title>Closing costs</title>
<description><![CDATA[     STATE guidelines say no elementary student should be on a school bus more than 30 minutes each way, no middle school student should have more than a 45-minute ride, and no high school student should face more than an hour on a bus one-way.  Those guid...]]></description>
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<title>School closings, lax oversight lead to record long bus rides</title>
<description><![CDATA[     School administrators across West Virginia have repeatedly ignored transportation laws and guidelines, forcing thousands of children to spend two hours or more on school buses each day and leaving them more likely to get sick, less likely to learn, a ...]]></description>
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<title>Counting bolts: Tommys long ride</title>
<description><![CDATA[     SNOWSHOE � Tommy Evans stood atop the 4,848-foot mountain at  6:20 a.m., waiting for the bus to arrive, wearing a special badge so nobody  would lose him on the way to school.   He clutched his father�s hand. Wind sailed through the pine  boughs. ...]]></description>
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<title>Rising costs, fewer students</title>
<description><![CDATA[     School transportation costs have soared in West Virginia,  <li>early doubling during the past decade, even though the state buses 25,000</li>
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<title>Riding the school bus hazardous to children</title>
<description><![CDATA[     They�re tired and cranky. They have a hard time concentrating in class. They can�t join the football team or the band, or take the most difficult classes.   Students, parents and teachers told the Gazette-Mail that long bus rides take a toll on ch...]]></description>
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<title>How we did it</title>
<description><![CDATA[     The Sunday Gazette-Mail conducted a year-long investigation into the burden that school closings can place on the state�s rural children. Today�s stories are part one of an ongoing series.   For today�s stories, more than 80 people were intervie...]]></description>
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