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School Start Time Options
(School Year 2022-2023)
June 22, 2021
Attachment A
Overview • Review / Focus on Health & Wellness • Steering Committee • Options • Comprehensive Engagement Campaign • Recommendation • Resources & Information
1. Review: Important updates to consider as study
was completed in 2019
1. Costs have been updated
2. Growth in the community
(more schools, subdivisions, etc.)
3. Labor market
(i.e. bus driver shortage)
1. Review: Focus on Health & Wellness • December 10, 2019: The Board of Trustees reviewed research and information on school start times as it related to our current bell schedules, and requested additional information and possible options regarding future bell times that are later for our middle and high school students. • June 9, 2020: The Board of Trustees provided direction to move forward with the draft school start time options for possible later start times for most students and the proposed stakeholder engagement process for the 2022-2023 School Year.
1. Review: Focus on Health & Wellness
• Decrease of tardiness and absences (*1)
• Increase in student graduation (*2)
• Increase in student graduation (*3)
• Reduction of teenage drivers in accidents (*4)
• Centers for Disease Control Research (*5)
• Academy of Pediatrics Research (*6)2. Steering Committee
Representatives: Focus:
Budget • Bring forward some new start time options for
Board of Trustees to review
Office of Accountability
• Include three-year cost estimate of each option
Office of School Leadership
• Include logistical impacts
School Police
• Provide Board of Trustees with a proposed
Student Activities/Athletics process to engage stakeholders if they choose
to look at possibly changing future schedules
Transportation
• Consider implementation for the 2021-2022
or the 2022-2023 school year3. Options • Committee wanted to give the Board of Trustees as many feasible options as possible. • All current options have MS starting no earlier than 8:00 am & HS starting no earlier than 8:30 am – However, the MS & HS start times could be switched on any of the schedules with minimal impact. • Costs range from neutral to $1,558,000. • Additional bus drivers required range from 0 to 32.
3. Options (A-D)
Option A Option B
School AM PM School AM PM
Type Type
MS 8:00 2:30 MS 8:00 2:30
HS 8:30 3:00
HS 8:30 3:00
ES 9:30 3:30
ES 9:30 3:30
ES 10:00 4:00
Option C Option D
School AM PM School AM PM
Type Type
ES 8:00 2:00 ES 8:00 2:00
ES 8:30 2:30 ES 8:30 2:30
MS 9:00 3:30 HS 9:00 3:30
HS 9:30 4:00 MS 9:30 4:003. Options (E-F)
Option E Option F
School AM PM School Type AM PM
Type
ES 8:00 2:00 ES 8:00 2:00
HS 9:00 3:30 MS 9:00 3:30
MS 9:30 4:00 HS 9:30 4:003. Options and Impacts
• Athletics & Extracurricular Activities
• Co-curricular activities
• The later HS dismissal times, possibility of more missed class times for
athletes
• After School Programs
• Boys & Girls Club
• 21st Century Programs
• City Programs
• McQueen, Hug, Reed & Reno High Schools
• Currently, these schools start earlier than our other high schools for master
scheduling preference & added instructional time.
• These schedules were negotiated at the school site with approval from WEA.
• Families/Childcare3. Options and Transportation Costs
Option Order of School Starts Annual Additional
Operating Bus Drivers
Cost Required
A MS-8:00 HS-8:30 ES-9:30/10:00 Cost Neutral 0
B MS-8:00 HS-8:30 ES-9:30 $633,000 13
C ES-8:00/8:30 MS-9:00 HS-9:30 $1,558,000 32
D ES-8:00/8:30 HS-9:00 MS-9:30 $1,558,000 32
E ES-8:00 HS-9:00 MS-9:30 $731,000 15
F ES-8:00 MS-9:00 HS-9:30 $877,000 183. Options: Detailed Transportation Costs • Additional Routes • Additional Drivers • Additional Fuel • Additional Maintenance • Does not include additional buses needed for some options – Average new bus cost = $155,000
4. Comprehensive Engagement Campaign with Stakeholders
The Office of Communications will be prepared for engagement if the Board of Trustees decides to
move forward. Possible campaign would include:
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times • Virtual and In-Person employee groups. community partners
• Medical perspective on Town Hall • Boys & Girls Club
later start time • Before & After
• Relevant research School Programs
• FAQ
• Survey and Options.5. Next Steps
• Bell Schedule webpage on the District’s website – August 2021
• Staff and Family Survey – September 2021
• Virtual and In-Person Town Halls –September 2021
• Families
• Employees
• Community Partners
• Presentation and Possible Action for the Board of Trustees
October 12 , 2021
October 26, 2021Questions?
?6. Resources & Information 1. Wheaton, Chapman, and Croft, Op. cit., p. 377 2. McKeever, P. and L. Clark. “Delayed High School Start Times Later than 8:30 Am and Impact on Graduation Rates and Attendance Rates.” Sleep Health, 3:2, April 2017. pp. 120–12 3. Minges, K. and N. Redeker. “Delayed School Start Times and Adolescent Sleep: A Systematic Review of the Experimental Evidence.” Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2016. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079215000891, p. 89. 4. Vorona, R. et al. “Adolescent Crash Rates and School Start Times in Two Central Virginia Counties, 2009-2011: A Follow-up Study to a Southeastern Virginia Study, 2007-2008.” Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 10:11, November 2014. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224716/ 5. Centers for Disease Control Research https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start- times/index.html 6. Academy of Pediatrics https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/3/642 7. MIAMI-DADE County Public Schools Bell information http://belltimes.dadeschools.net/
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