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School Start Times to be Same for 2006-07
School starting times will not change for the 2006-07 school year. Acting at the April 19 meeting, the Community Consolidated School District 15 Board of Education voted to keep the current start times in place for the coming year.
Starting times across the district are staggered to allow for more efficient use of the district’s buses and to accommodate the state requirement for the district to provide transportation for students who attend private and parochial schools. In the past, start times for most District 15 elementary schools traditionally rotated from 8:30 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. in three-year cycles. Beginning with the 2003-04 year, the start times then in place were retained to save the district the cost of rescheduling all bus routes.
Kevin Nohelty, assistant superintendent for business and auxiliary services, suggested a more detailed analysis of the district’s transportation system. He told the board he believed the study could be completed by next January to allow time to consider the possibility of changing school start times for the 2007-08 school year.
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