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Oct 28, 2019 · For some California high-school students, the new law will make little or no difference; for others, it will push back school start times by 90 minutes or more. Here’s what we know about California’s landmark new school start times law. 1.
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The purpose of this bulletin is to provide guidelines for the elementary and secondary instructional school day for regular, minimum, shortened, and banked time days. Additionally, the definition of the instructional time and the length of the day are defined as mandated by the provisions of SB 81 and current District policy.
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This year, California became the first state in the nation to require later school start times for high school and middle schools. Before the law became effective on July 1, 2022, local school districts could choose how early to start, say, 7 am. Now middle schools can’t start before 8 am and high schools before 8:30 am. The lawwas passed because e...
The movement for change began in 2016 with an op-ed in the Los Angeles Timesby a parent and writer, Lisa Lewis. Her local high school in southern California started at 7:30 and she could see her son struggling to wake up each morning. He came home exhausted every afternoon. Alarmed, Lisa dug in and discovered that early start times create serious h...
Lisa’s op-ed, “Why school should start later in the day”, caught the eye of Senator Anthony Portantino. In 2017, he introduced a bill calling for the start times recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. And presto, the legislature stood up and cheered, education organizations like the California Teachers Association joined the movement, a...
The biggest challenge: most people, including legislators, simply did not understand the science of sleep and the dangers of too little sleep. Just telling teens to go to bed earlier does not work. Their bodies are hard-wired with different sleep patterns by circadian rhythms that don’t listen to the admonitions of parents. According to the Sleep F...
One of the first things Senator Portantino did after introducing the bill was to reach out to the PTA. Then he accepted friendly amendments to the language in the bill to clarify and improve it. The state PTA recommended giving school districts a three-year “heads up” to allow time to adjust to the change. The bill passed in 2019 but would not go i...
Undaunted by failing to get the bill passed in the first legislative attempts, the California State PTA doubled down on its support. It joined with Start School Later, a non-profit organization, to co-sponsor SB328, and made changing school start time PTAs highest legislative priority. With hundreds of thousands of members throughout the state, PTA...
The mobilization of parents throughout California helped get later school start time passed into law. Parents know they need to be persistent in getting their children up, ready for school, and out the door. They used that same kind of persistence to remind their legislators of the serious academic and health risks of early school start time. The b...
Parents make a difference.The parents were all volunteers motivated by the belief that they could improve the health and academic success of children. This was not led by a team of paid lobbyists or financed by bundles of dark money. Real stories and real facts and real research make a difference. Teamwork Matters. It took a combination of parents ...
Sep 19, 2022 · Especially January through March, most schools allow parents to visit and see what a typical school day looks like; the size of the school, playground, and classrooms; and the teachers and staff working and interacting with the children. Check with the school for the best days and hours to visit.
Jul 13, 2022 · In 2019, California legislators passed a first-of-its-kind law requiring that public high schools begin classes no earlier than 8:30 a.m., and that middle schools start no earlier than 8...
Aug 16, 2022 · California schools are starting later to let students sleep. Here's what the science says about later school start times.
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Jul 9, 2022 · Students and a sleep scientist share their views on a new California law mandating the school day start no earlier than 8 a.m. for middle grades and 8:30 a.m. for high schoolers.
