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More kids walk to school Faced with soaring diesal fuel costs, school districts are forcing students to use the old fashioned way to get to class: on their own feet. Many schools are eliminating or reducing bus service because fuel has jumped to $4.50 per gallon, 36 percent more than a year ago, and is busting budgets. In California, districts are eliminating busing for thousands of students. Districts in Washington state, Idaho and Maryland and elsewhere are considering bus stops,canceling field trips and forcing students to walk longer distances to school to control costs. Worried parents in Masschusetts have called Walk Boston, a nonprofit group that promotes walking, asking for help after their communities cut back on busing. Health advocates long have encouraged students to walk, stressing the fitness benefits. But school and transportation officials say they fear that abruptly reducing bus service could lower attendance rates, increase traffic congestion or endanger students if they cannot walk on the sidewalks and crosswalks.

Contributed by stevo on August 20, 2008, at 10:39 AM UTC.

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