Hi,

Our city school district eliminated bus money for field trips two years 
ago.  We have a private foundation that gives us money for bussing - we 
apply each year, and base our request on number of programs we'll offer, 
full attendance from the targeted classes, and quotes from the school 
bus dept. - price per trip per bus.  The up side is we're the only venue 
classes can visit - no money to go elsewhere.  But we face the usual 
challenges: getting teachers interested, getting them to sign up in a 
timely fashion, getting them to requisition the bus (they request, we 
pay the bill), and billing difficulties with the bus dept.  The school 
district did have a special curriculum person who was our contact - we 
pitched programs to her, she pitched them to the teachers and set up 
schedules and sheep-dogged the whole process.  But that position was cut 
last year.  Our educator also does outreach programs in the schools.

Good thread - I'm passing this along to our educator.

John Marks
Geneva (NY) Historical Society

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