If youve got to read a bunch of stuff for homework, read on the bus. 'We will continue to use federal money we receive as a Title I district to maintain the bus.'īarge emphasizes that, as of right now, there has not been an official ribbon cutting and the bus has not begun its routes, so there's a high possibility that most of the community is unaware of the bus's existence. A long bus ride is a great opportunity to do some of your less-intense homework, or at least get started on looking through it to plan how youll do it when you get home.

'We had an older bus we had removed from the fleet, but rather than sell, we used federal grant money to refurbish the bus with a new engine, transmission, heating and air, a generator, and the technology,' he said. The concept for the homework bus came to Barge when he served as the state superintendent and heard that another district in rural Southwest Georgia had done something similar. If we can close the gap between those who have access to the internet and those who don't, we can remove one of the barriers that prevents all students from having equal opportunity to maximize their learning,' he said. 'We never want the lack of access to technology or the internet to hamper student learning.

We did our homework on the bus