{"id":447490,"date":"2026-09-25T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447490\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:00:09","slug":"austin-isd-projecting-significant-diesel-cost-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447490\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin ISD projecting significant diesel cost increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Leaders with Austin ISD are projecting a significant cost increase on diesel used by its school buses this fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders discussed the rising costs tied to transportation at an Austin ISD Board of Trustees meeting Thursday night. According to the district, from mid-August 2025 to mid-September 2025, Austin ISD&#8217;s total diesel cost was just below $187,000. Over the same period in 2026, the number increased 95% to more than $364,000.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on gas prices in the Austin area, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Leaders with Austin ISD are projecting a significant cost increase on diesel used by its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-447490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}