Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Funding Cuts Would Keep Rural Kids Waiting for the Bus

Aired on The California Report on the morning of Tuesday, January 24, 2012.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201201240850/b

Before dawn on January 24th, two school buses full of students and a caravan of community members from rural Humboldt County began a five-hour trek to Sacramento. They're protesting the decision to eliminate all state funding for school buses as part of the budget-balancing trigger cuts.