Thre are a bunch of changes to the latest version of the peoposed 2012-13 Wake County school bell schedules.
I'll go into more detail later but some highlights include staff recommending no changes from the 2011-12 schedule to several elementary schools: Briarclff, Kingswood, Lead Mine Elementary, Lincoln Heights and Sycamore.
Davis Drive Elementary would start 10 minutes earlier and go from 7:35 a.m to 2:05 p.m. instead of the proposed switch from a 7: 45 a.m. start to a 9:15 a.m. start.
Green, Wendell and Zebulon elementary schools would still change but not go from a 7:45 a.m start to a 9:15 a.m start. They'd both now operate from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
UPDATE
Click here to view Wake's press release. Staff is scaling back the projected savings from $6 million a year to $4.8 million because the changes announced today would keep 33 more buses on the road than the prior proposal.
The revised bell schedule list was approved 6-2 with board chairman Kevin Hll and board member Jim Martin the no votes.
Martin said the new schedules should have been provided to parents before the end of round one of the school selection process.
Martin also said he was concerned that the plan has so many schools starting after 9 a.m. because of the impact on working families. His amendment to require schools that open after 9 a.m. to offer before-school care died from a lack of a second.
Comments
So far Martin has accomplished zilch
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 21:20 — FSandYOUAnd he's got a PhD too!
At least Martin has tried to
Wed, 03/28/2012 - 19:12 — CaryMomof4At least Martin has tried to help working families negatively affected by the bell schedule change by attempting to require all elementary schools starting after parents have to be at work to provide child care options. Even Sutton voted for the change by stating that moving the start times to 9:15 isn't asking families to do anything that his family isn't already doing' but I'm willing to bet that if his kids' school that starts at 9:15 it offers a before school program for working parents. There are schools being moved to 9:15 that don't offer before school care. Those schools should have been left at an earlier tier or should be required to provide before school programs.
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Wed, 03/28/2012 - 20:11 — SideburnsWon't the school respond to the later start time and offer before school care if there is enough demand for it from families at that school?
In our case, I don't think
Wed, 03/28/2012 - 20:35 — CaryMomof4In our case, I don't think so without a push from administration. The principal has made statements in the past that indicate to me the reason we don't have it now and the reason the after school program is administered by the YMCA and not WCPSS is that it's another thing he has to manage and he doesn't have time or desire to do that. I'm hopeful but working on making other arrangements with my employer as a back up.
question?
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 16:27 — EBDarcyHow are they defining "ride time" in this plan? I didn't see that in the press release but I could have missed it.
Ride time is in the link for
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 16:35 — KeungHui (author)Ride time is in the link for the presentation that's in the press release.