英语翻译This is the VOA Special English Education Report.High fu

英语翻译
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
High fuel prices are affecting all areas of life,including education.
The United States has an estimated four hundred seventy-five thousand school buses -- all painted yellow.Each day they carry more than twenty-five million children,half of all schoolchildren in the country.
But these buses,on average,use four liters of diesel fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers.When the school year began last fall,diesel averaged fifty-five cents a liter nationally.The price nearly doubled,to a dollar and eight cents,by the end of school in June.
Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council,an industry coalition.He says fuel prices negotiated for schools are not much lower than others have to pay.
As a result,schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation costs.Bus routes are being redrawn or,in some cases,canceled.Some areas are buying buses that use natural gas or other alternative fuels.And a few places are investigating hybrid fuel-electric technology.
Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams.And some school districts may end any bus service not required by law.
Most states require bus transportation through high school for public school students who need it.Massachusetts requires it only for elementary school.And schools can charge to ride the bus.State education officials say some districts may begin to do that,or raise existing fees.
Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school.The American School Bus Council say cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the environment.It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students.Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus service might reduce attendance.
But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school.And that would surely make people happy at the National Center for Safe Routes to School.More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a three-year-old federal program,part of an international movement.The goal is to increase physical activity and reduce air pollution.
The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October eighth this year.But for some students,high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day.
Next week,we'll talk about other ways that schools and students are reacting to the prices.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report,written by Nancy Steinbach.I'm Steve Ember.

这是VOA特别英国教育报告.
汽油价格高影响生活所有区域,包括教育.
美国有估计四百七十五一千辆校车 -- 所有被绘的黄色.每天他们在国家运载超过二十五百万个孩子,一半所有学童.
但这些公共汽车,平均,使用四公升柴油移动少于十六公里.当学年去年秋天开始了,平均为的柴油五十五分每公升全国性.价格几乎加倍了,对一美元和八分,在学校以前在6月.
Bob赖利为美国校车委员会,产业联合讲话.他说为学校谈判的汽油价格比其他必须支付不低.
结果,学校寻找方式减少运输费用.公共汽车路线被重画或,在某些情况下,被取消.一些区域买使用天然气或其他代用燃料的公共汽车.并且一些个地方调查杂种燃料电技术.
第二步步由体育队包括少量实地考察和较少旅行.并且一些学区也许结束法律没需要的所有总线服务.
大多数状态通过高中要求公共汽车运输为需要它的公立学校学生.马萨诸塞为小学仅要求它.并且学校可能充电乘坐公共汽车.状态教育官员说有些区也许开始做那,或者培养现有的费.
校车是运输的最安全的形式到/从学校的Studies展示.美国校车委员会说削减总线服务为孩子和可能环境是坏的.它说去除公共汽车从路将意味在运输学生的其他车的增量.发言人鲍伯・赖利说另一关心是减少总线服务也许减少出勤.
但它可能也使更多孩子走或骑自行车到学校.并且那肯定将使人愉快在安全路线全国中心对学校.安全地走或骑自行车对学校的更多孩子是一个三岁的联邦节目的目标,一部分的国际运动.目标是增加体育活动和减少大气污染.
美国今年将庆祝步行对在10月八日的教学日.但是为有些学生,高汽油价格能每天做一走对学校天.
下星期,我们将谈论学校和学生起反应对价格的其他方式.
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