The proposal freed school
districts to
adjust employee work assignments without negotiating with the teachers union and promised to make objectives like merit pay,
scheduling revisions, and tenure reform far more attainable.
For 2014 - 2015, in an effort to ensure adequate rest for high school students, the
district decided to start all high schools at 8:30 a.m.
Adjusting bus
schedules, however, required a change in the middle school start time, so board members implemented a 9 a.m. morning bell for those schools, except for C.C. Washington, which retains its 8:25 a.m. start time, Breakfast Point (K - 8), which will advance by 5 minutes to 7:45 a.m., and New Horizons (6 - 12), which will delay by 15 minutes to 8:30 a.m. Elementary schools will begin at 7:45 a.m., except for Tyndall, which will start at 7:20 a.m..