Classes To Start Later In Day Beginning Next Year In Anne Arundel

 

School start times were pushed back in Anne Arundel County. Classes will start later in the morning beginning next fall.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — Classes will start later in the morning beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, the Anne Arundel County Board of Education announced Thursday. Officials think this will create healthier start times for students when the policy takes effect next fall. Classes will then start:

• between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. in elementary schools
• between 8:30 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. in middle schools
• at 8:30 a.m. in high schools

Dismissal times will also get pushed back. Exact school hours won't be known for several months.

"This has been years in the making," school board President Melissa Ellis said in a press release. "There is more work to be done between now and then, but the certainty is that change is coming."

The board of education in March contracted Prismatic Services, Inc. to study school start times and the effects of a potential shift on bus schedules...

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Middle, high schools can’t start earlier than 8:30 a.m. under newly approved California legislation

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers want to bar middle school and high schools from starting before 8:30 a.m., but the final decision on when the first bell should ring will rest with Gov. Jerry Brown.

Following an intense debate over what has been a local school district decision, the Senate and Assembly approved SB328 by Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge (Los Angeles County).

The bill would require all public middle and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m., including charter schools, with supporters arguing that research shows teens natural sleep patterns keep them up late and lead to sleep deprivation when schools have early start times. Research shows teens do better in school, have lower rates of depression and anxiety and fewer car accidents when school start times start later...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Middle-high-schools-can-t-start-earlier-than-13198460.php?utm_campaign=facebook-premium&utm_source=CMS+Sharing+Button&utm_medium=social

85 percent of Boston schools will get new start times

In a move that will scramble the daily schedules of families across the city, nearly 85 percent of Boston’s 125 schools will have new start times next fall, school officials announced Thursday night.
The changes aim to let more high school students sleep in and more elementary school students get out before sunset. Boston now joins a small but growing number of school systems in Massachusetts and across the nation that have pushed high school start times later in an effort to get students to school well rested and alert. The hope is that students will perform better academically.
To that end, some 94 percent of students in grades 7 through 12 will begin classes after 8 a.m. next fall, up from 26 percent this year. Among them: students at Boston Latin Academy in the Grove Hall area near the Dorchester-Roxbury line, which will go from having one of the earliest start times, 7:20 a.m., to one of the latest, 8:30 a.m...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/07/eighty-five-percent-boston-schools-will-get-new-start-times/jeBUcNQGovviiRDzDCv8ZP/story.html?p1=Article_Inline_Bottom

Hogan to Board of Education: Focus on ensuring students are safe in schools

The following letter from Governor Hogan to the Montgomery County Board of Education was posted today on Twitter by Board of Education staff.
 

Maryland attorney general: Hogan may have exceeded authority with order on school start

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan may have exceeded his authority by ordering public school systems to start after Labor Day, according to the state attorney general’s office, whose opinion was sought by Democratic lawmakers opposed to the Republican governor’s action.
“I can not say unequivocally that the Labor Day executive order exceeds the Governor’s authority, but I believe it likely that a reviewing court, if presented with the issue, would conclude that it does,” Adam D. Snyder, a lawyer in the office of Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D), wrote in a 24-page letter that was delivered Friday to state Sen. Paul G. Pinsky (D-Prince George’s County) and Del. Anne R. Kaiser (D-Montgomery).
Snyder also wrote that the General Assembly has the authority to pass legislation to override Hogan’s executive order...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-ag-hogan-may-have-exceeded-authority-with-order-on-school-start/2016/09/16/96a59b6a-7c27-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?postshare=8071474059820223&tid=ss_tw#comments

NBC4: Teachers Union Proposes Changing Daily Schedule for Students in Montgomery County

The union representing Montgomery County, Maryland, public school teachers plans to formally recommend the school district change its daily schedule for students, shifting the start times for elementary, middle and high school students.

The Montgomery County Education Association, which represents more than 12,000 educators, shared three proposals for new school day schedules with its large membership county-wide.

Source: Teachers Union Proposes Changing Daily Schedule for Students in Montgomery County, Md. | NBC4 Washington http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Teachers-Union-Proposes-Changing-Daily-Schedule-for-Students-in-Montgomery-County-Md-392777251.html#ixzz4JiPMilqf
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Start Time Proposal Includes Longer Elementary School Day

   2015 Feb 10 Rec Bell Times by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

WPOST: Montgomery parents plead for later high school start times

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/montgomery-parents-plead-for-later-high-school-start-times/2015/01/23/db66312a-a2f2-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html?hpid=z4

Exclusive Memo: How to Control Board of Education Members

At the June 20, 2013, Board of Education meeting held off-site (no video of this meeting) Board of Education member Shirley Brandman presented the following memo on how to control Board of Education members' questions on topics such as concussions, school gardens, elimination of styrofoam trays, dangers of substance abuse, math acceleration and bell times.  You know, all those messy public school issues that the Superintendent doesn't want the elected Board of Education to discuss! 

Here's BOE member Brandman's suggestion for how to keep BOE members quiet. 

  2013 BOE - Keeping BOE Members from discussing topics from the public by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Starr starts Work Group on Start Times for School

At today's Board of Education meeting Superintendent Joshua Starr announced the creation of a Work Group to study school start times. Superintendent Starr said he will bring forward results of this Work Group.

Who will be on the Work Group?  Will it meet in compliance with the Maryland Open Meetings Act? 

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Superintendent Establishes Work Group to Study Bell Times December 11, 2012
	Superintendent of Schools Joshua P. Starr announced today (December 11, 2012) the establishment of a work group to study the issue of school bell times. The work group will look at past reports done by MCPS on this issue; review public input and correspondence that have been received; analyze the efforts of other jurisdictions that have considered changing bell times; review current literature and research; and gather community input. “This is a very complex issue and I want to make sure we have a full understanding of the impact that school bell times have on student achievement and other areas of development,” Dr. Starr said. “A change in school bell times would affect every student in Montgomery County, and would have a significant impact on our budget and operations. Therefore, it is imperative we have all the information we need before making any decisions.” Changing school start times for high school students has been discussed in Montgomery County and throughout the nation. MCPS studied this issue extensively in 1998 and released a report entitled “Changing Bell Times.” No changes were made to bell times as a result of the report. The issue has been raised at different times over the past 10 years and on Tuesday, a group of parents submitted an online petition to the Board of Education asking the district to move back school start times. The work group will begin meeting soon and a report should be completed sometime in the spring.

Guest Post: Moving MCPS Start Times is Affordable

Moving MCPS Start Times is Affordable

Time Magazine on School Start Time for Teens

Health: Latest Findings

Countering concerns that later school start times would lead kids to stay up later the night before, a new study by researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital found that when ninth-to-12th-graders started school at 8:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m., they went to bed 18 min. earlier and slept an average of 45 min. more each school night. They also reported less depression and more alertness, and the percentage of kids falling asleep in class dropped twofold. In addition, fewer students were late to their first class.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2002531,00.html#ixzz0vMN7Jnt2