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Transportation Getting Possible Overhall in Knoxville District 202
The Knoxville School District is going ahead with part of a larger plan to improve the district's bus fleet.

During a special meeting scheduled for board planning, the District 202 board last night voted to approve purchasing new computer software to help determine bus routes. Currently, Superintendent Steven Wilder says, routes are still developed by pen and paper, and one big map of the school district.

Wilder says using a computer program could help the district's transportation director manage busing students, even if it may not look like there would be any savings.

"The savings really, it's hard to really put into dollars and cents, but what it does in help Chuck be more efficient with all the routes, all the scheduling, and somebody in the community asked the question, 'Well aren't our routes pretty stable?' We don't have a whole lot of development in the district. Where the kids come from? Changes, but we don't have a whole lot of houses going up."

Wilder says it could also benefit the district's transportation director, giving him more time to work on bus maintenance.

The board is planning on waiting until its mid-October meeting to decide on whether or not to go to a leasing system for the district's buses, versus purchasing them outright which they do now.
09 28 10 by Newsroom
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