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Garden Grove Unified School District, for example, is expanding early morning programming to include free tutoring and sessions on art, fitness and mindfulness. “It’s harder to recuperate after school when it’s dark by the time you get home and you have piles of work to do,” added Aiara Reyes, a senior at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara.īut others see promise in delaying school start times. “As predicted, the new schedules do present challenges for students who work part-time jobs, are responsible for child care for siblings and who participate in sports and extracurricular activities,” Troy Flint, spokesperson for the California School Boards Association, told the Mercury News. Now, some of the school’s low-income students of color are facing two-hour commutes on public transportation - prompting six kids to drop out, the San Diego-Union Tribune reports. Many districts, already grappling with a severe shortage of bus drivers, are now finding it more difficult to stagger routes and schedules - prompting some, including Preuss Charter School in La Jolla, to eliminate bus service entirely for some grades. “How are working parents supposed to drop kids off at the school?” Nelson Alarcon, the parent of a Los Angeles Unified high school student, asked the Los Angeles Times.

Interference with parents’ work schedules.

Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2019, cite what they say is “overwhelming research” showing that later school start times result in kids sleeping more, which improves their health and academic performance.īut some educators have warned that delaying school start times could have unintended consequences - a point corroborated by dispatches from districts complying with the law for the first time. Supporters of the first-in-the-nation policy, which Gov. and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m, though campuses can also offer “zero period” classes earlier in the morning. One of the biggest shifts: a state law that went into effect July 1 requiring middle schools to start no earlier than 8 a.m.

On top of that, they’re taking precautions against the low risk of monkeypox transmission on campus and helping kids catch up on delayed health screenings and immunizations.

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the name of a 2022 film, but it could also describe the cascade of changes confronting California schools as they welcome students back to campus after more than two years of pandemic-disrupted education.Īlthough many COVID restrictions have loosened - most schools have ended mandatory testing programs, made face masks optional and aligned with the state in delaying enforcement of student coronavirus vaccine mandates until Jat the earliest - districts are contending with plenty of other new policies.

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