Fuel Costs Prompt School Closings in Tenn.

The high price of diesel fuel for school buses meant children in one Tennessee school system got a holiday Monday – their second in a row.

Some 3,800 youngsters got Friday and Monday off because of the action taken by Dallas Smith, superintendent of Rhea County schools in east Tennessee, to ease transportation spending.

“That kind of situation is probably the most extreme I have heard,” said Mike Martin, executive director of the National Association for Pupil Transportation, based in Albany, N.Y., and a spokesman for the Washington-based School Bus Information Council.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer