“Adequate sleep for students is a MUST HAVE. California passed a statewide act to mandate 8:30am start times as a necessary public health measure. It did so because it could not trust high schools to voluntarily do the right thing. New York state recently passed the same law, which will go into effect next year. Both states were afraid that, at crunch time, high schools would adopt early high school start time to fund other ‘higher priorities,’ thereby throwing student health under the bus. – Jim Healy Continue Reading →
