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School committee weighs 5‑minute schedule shift to ease elementary bus delays
Summary
District staff proposed starting middle and high schools five minutes earlier and elementary schools five minutes later to give buses an extra 10 minutes for routes; the committee took the proposal under advisement to solicit community feedback.
District staff told the Walpole School Committee on March 13 that shifting school start and end times by five minutes for different school levels would increase afternoon routing flexibility and reduce unsupervised student wait time caused by bus delays.
Mr. Fisher, a district staff member who presented the proposal, told the committee that recent changes to middle-school locations have increased afternoon delays for the four elementary schools and that the current schedule does not provide…
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