(AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says his budget plan
won’t take a “single penny” out of K-12 classrooms.
But school administrators from across the state say a 34 percent reduction in
busing aid might keep districts across the state from hiring new staff or buying
new textbooks and technology.
This year, the state covered just 16 percent of transportation costs. Next
year it could cover even less if the budget proposal gets House and Senate
approval.
The reduction would impact all districts that bus students, but rural
districts with fewer kids could be hit particularly hard.
House Minority Leader Gail McCann-Beatty says she doesn’t know of any district
“that’s going to be able to take that kind of hit and not have to pull those
dollars from somewhere else.”
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