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Board debates proposed shift in school start times; no formal vote taken
Summary
Superintendent Mister August presented a draft start-time schedule on Feb. 10 that would push secondary schools to later start times and elementary schools to mid-morning; the board discussed logistics and academic impacts but took no vote.
Superintendent Mister August presented a draft adjustment to start times for the 2025–26 school year that would move secondary start times later in the morning and shift elementary start times to mid-morning. Under the draft, Shippensburg Area High School and the middle school would begin at 8:05 a.m.; elementary schools would begin between 9:05 and 9:15 a.m., depending on the building; the administration included sample schedules with the proposal.
Teacher Sharon Lawrence, science department chair and AP instructor, told the board the plan as drafted would shorten many instructional blocks. “The consequence of cutting 30 minutes out of our day is that the block will have to shorten,” she said, adding that AP class blocks could shrink to about 28–32 minutes in the proposed models and that the change could reduce the district’s ability to align block schedules with Shippensburg University’s…
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