Live Blogging from Transportation Work Session
Update: I stayed about an hour (of the hour and a half allotted for the Work Session). It was mostly a complete waste of time for all involved. (I'll check and see if anything definitive finally came out but I doubt it.) Here's the upshot - later start times for secondary schools is NOT going to happen for next school year, 2014-15. It will likely not happen for 2015-16. The issue is that no staff person can give any real idea of how much time it would take for all this "research and community engagement" they believe to be necessary. It is clear staff does not want to do this. I do not believe they think it worth the time and effort (Banda's early statement notwithstanding that no one disputes the merits of changing bell times). I'm not even sure they believe there are good academic outcomes to be had. Now, Mr. Wright was once again quite diplomatic and careful to state that it is not that they DON'T want to do this but th...