The Anchorage School Board on Tuesday voted to change when classes start and end by at least an hour beginning in fall 2024.
Anchorage School District buses, parked at the district's transportation headquarters on August 24, 2022.
“Middle and high school students who get eight hours or more of sleep experience less depression, have more energy, are less likely to use tobacco and consume junk food, and make better decisions,” district officials wrote in a memo to school board members. Opponents noted the change would impede existing employment schedules for parents, demand increased and expensive child care at a time when the city is in the midst of a child care crisis, get in the way of after-school activities and jobs for students, as well as impact those who care for younger siblings, and would leave students without daylight at the end of the dayPhillip Walters, a Gruening Middle School band teacher and coach who has two elementary school children in the district, asked...
Some community members and parents also took issue with how the district conducted its town halls and surveys. Some questioned the makeup of survey respondents and why the town halls weren’t more broadly representative of the highly diverse Anchorage School District. Corey Aist, president of the Anchorage Education Association, the teachers union, said about one-third support the proposed change, one-third do not, and one-third do not have an opinion.— said the shift would leave their children unattended for multiple hours and that without child care they may need to resign. Aist urged the district to adopt a plan that would support after-school care programs for district staff and potentially the larger community.
Some also said that the change, initially set to take effect this fall, would be too soon for families to plan around. The board ultimately voted to delay the start of the change by one year to give the district more time to plan.
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