Evansville city buses sport advertisements on their big bodies, and no one seems offended — why should they be? — so why not put advertisements on Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp., buses? Not only is the subject before the Indiana Legislature this month, but also, the EVSC is reported to be facing a $2 million shortcoming for transportation services.
What the legislature is looking at for now is allowing a pilot project for two Indianapolis neighborhoods and a school district north of the city to sell advertising on their buses.
According to the Associated Press, one of the districts had proposed charging parents for their children to ride school buses, but that didn’t go over so well, and the plan was dropped.
If this pilot project works — and we can’t imagine why it wouldn’t — then districts such as the EVSC should look at doing the same thing.
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