Start Times: Background

• In spring 2016, the Board committed to review start times.

• A decision no later than February 2017.

Start Times: Actions this fall/winter

Considerations established

Community feedback

Feedback reviewed

Options developed

• Options presented• Feedback on options

requested• Feedback reviewed• Recommendation

presented• Board action

Start Times: ConsiderationsThe District will create start-time options

guided by the following parameters.

1. Options are consistent with medical evidence.

2. Options are consistent with mission, vision, and values.

3. Options are financially sustainable.

4. Bus route lengths remain similar.

Start Times: Considerations

5. Student connectedness opportunities

remain.

6. Options consider community impact of

start times.

7. No school would start earlier than 8 a.m.

8. No school would start later than 9:30 a.m.

Start Times: Considerations

9. Options allow access to before-school and after-school care.

10. Irondale and Mounds View start at the same time.

11. Buses serve students’ school-level peers only.

12. Options allow for alignment between K Center and home elementary school times.

Start Times: Public Feedback

• September 21 – October 17• 3,878 people participated.

• 7,958 thoughts were contributed.

Start Times: Public Feedback

• Widespread support for later high school start times was expressed by all groups:– Parents, students, staff and community members.

• This support far surpassed any other theme expressed, including a desire to not change start times.

• The greatest concerns and questions were related to the impact on students and families, with specific concerns about before- and after-school activities.

Start Times: Directive

• The School Board directed administration to create options.

– Option creation was based on the established considerations as well as operational limitations and realities.

Options: Limitations & RealitiesTransportation

• Geography is a factor.

• Most efficient = larger high school routes first.

Options: Limitations & Realities

Transportation• Grouping pairs of elementary

schools by geography allows for transportation efficiencies.

Pair 1 = Bel Air & SunnysidePair 2 = Island Lake & Turtle LakePair 3 = Pinewood & Valentine Hills

Options: Limitations & Realities

Non-public schools• Mounds View Public Schools provides

transportation services to non-public schools: Calvin Christian, St. John’s, and St. Odilia.

• Services for the non-public schools will be coordinated through conversations with the leadership at those schools.

Options: Limitations & RealitiesStudent Connectedness

Opportunities

• Top theme: concern for after-school activities for middle and high school students.

• No secondary schools were placed in the latest tier.

Options: Limitations & Realities

Financial sustainability• We considered options that moved

only high school start times. Those scenarios were cost prohibitive.

• All options presented will be financially sustainable and equal in cost.

Options: Flexibility

• Shifting any tier time earlier or later is possible.

• It would require an equal shift for the other 2 tiers.

2016‐17 Start times

2017‐18 Start times BLUE OPTION

BLUE OPTION: Defining features• Edgewood does not share the same

start time as the other middle schools.

• Greatest change in start times from current year is 35 minutes for any school, including high schools.

• Only a 5-minute difference in start times for Bel Air, Pinewood, Sunnyside, Valentine Hills and Edgewood.

2017‐18 Start times ORANGE OPTION

ORANGE OPTION: Defining features• All middle schools’ hours are aligned.

• Greatest change in start times from current year is 45 minutes for Bel Air and Sunnyside.

• Pinewood and Valentine experience a 5-minute change.

• All other schools experience a 35- minute time change.

• Bel Air and Sunnyside kindergarten start after their home elementary schools.

2017‐18 Start times PURPLE OPTION

PURPLE OPTION: Defining features• All middle schools start at the same

time.

• Middle schools start before 8 a.m. (7:45 a.m.) to ensure the last tier of schools start no later than 9:20 a.m.

• The high schools experience a 70- minute later start than current year.

• No other schools experience a time change of more than 35 minutes.

2017‐18 Start times SUMMARY VIEW

A closer look

How does the entire school day look for each school

in each option?

2017‐18 Start times School Day EXAMPLE #1

2017‐18 Start times School Day EXAMPLE #2

2017‐18 Start times School Day EXAMPLE #3

Start Times: Next Steps• Each option is detailed at

moundsviewschools.org/starttimes.• Opportunity to provide online feedback

through December 2.

• Feedback Forum Thursday, December 1

6 – 7:30 p.m. Highview Middle School

2300 7th St., New Brighton

Start Times: Next Steps

• December 13 School Board

meeting:

Recommendation to the School Board.