Many Nashville students will soon start their school days a little later. On Tuesday, the Board of Education adopted a proposal to push back school start and end times.
Science backs Mayor O’Connell’s later school start time policy. Critics say it’s a logistics problem.
Since his election in September, Mayor Freddie O’Connell has announced that pushing back school start times is a cornerstone of the education policy he is promoting. He and others around the country have been trying to stress that teenagers aren’t lazy or to blame for getting too little sleep. It’s science.
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