District turns bus into classroom
Project's Internet hookups let Sheridan kids ride and study
This article was published December 27, 2007 at 6:00 a.m.
PHOTO BY KAREN E. SEGRAVE
Shayna Tanner, an eighth-grader at Sheridan Middle School, does homework with her laptop while riding the bus to her home in Grapevine.
Aspirnaut Initiative
The school bus - a mobile virtual classroom - is a key component of the new "Aspirnaut Initiative."
LITTLE ROCK — Sheridan School District bus No. 46 sported a jaunty Christmas wreath on its front grille as driver Vera Launius steered the growling yellow monster over the narrow, curvy, patched and often unpaved roads of southeast Grant County.
Inside the bus, about 30 students - from the youngest of elementary pupils to high schoolers - were settled in for a bus ride of up to 90 minutes ending on Garden Seed Road near the unincorporated community of Grapevine.
A typical rural Arkansas school bus ride?
No. Not anymore.
For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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