Exploratory Committee to Address School Start Times

The school committee is appointing an exploratory committee to look into impacts of changing school start times.

The Easton School Committee decided Thursday night to appoint an exploratory committee to look into impacts of changing the start times for Easton Public Schools "As a school committee we decided it was time to formally take some steps to determine if changing the start time at any of the levels, particularly at the secondary level, makes sense," School Committee Chair Jane Martin said. The decision to form an exploratory committee comes after concerns that high-school aged children and adolescents may not getting enough sleep, which therefore affects their learning abilities. Currently, Oliver Ames High School (grades 9-12) and Easton Middle School (grades 6-8) have the earliest start times in the district, beginning at 7:30 a.m. and 7:35…

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Terra Ziporyn Snider, Ph.D.

11:51 pm on Monday, November 7, 2011

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