{"id":248,"date":"2016-12-23T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=248"},"modified":"2016-12-23T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:52:03","slug":"tr-school-district-to-use-grants-toward-clean-school-buses-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/tr-school-district-to-use-grants-toward-clean-school-buses-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"TR School District to Use Grants Toward &#8216;Clean&#8217; School Buses, Summer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_260\" style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE.png\" alt=\"TRRS Logo. (Credit: TRRS)\" width=\"642\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE.png 642w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE-392x420.png 392w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE-640x685.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TRRS Logo. (Credit: TRRS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Toms River Regional school district plans to use a grant to purchase environmentally friendly school buses, and expects more grant funding to come through in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent David M. Healy said the district was recently awarded a $180,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which will be used to purchase fuel-efficient, \u201cenvironmentally friendly\u201d buses. The buses will be purchased as part of the district\u2019s regular bus maintenance and replacement program, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A separate grant of $100,000 from the state Department of Education will be used toward starting a summer elementary program at one of the district\u2019s Title I schools, which are schools designated to have a heightened number of students from low-income families, and thus eligible for additional funding. The TRRS district has eight Title I schools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/tr-school-district-to-use-grants-toward-clean-school-buses-summer-program\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toms River Regional school district plans to use a grant to purchase environmentally friendly school buses, and expects more grant funding to come through in the near future. Superintendent David M. Healy said the district was recently awarded a $180,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which will be used to purchase fuel-efficient, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trschools_compass_LARGE.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}