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School board reviews stakeholder survey on start times, flags transportation and childcare concerns
Summary
At a Dec. 16 workshop the Flagler County School Board reviewed about 2,000 stakeholder survey responses on proposed later school start times, hearing strong parent preference for same-grade-band bus routes and concerns about transportation costs, extracurricular disruption and childcare; staff will prepare the required report for the Florida Department of Education and return with transportation modeling.
At its Dec. 16 workshop the Flagler County School Board heard a staff presentation on stakeholder feedback about potentially changing school start times and the transportation implications of any shift.
Staff presenter (Speaker 6) said the district received roughly 2,000 survey responses, with the large majority from parents and guardians and 25% from Flagler Schools employees; roughly 46% of employee respondents were also parents. "We had about 2,000 responses, which I think is pretty good representation," Speaker 6 said.
The presentation noted one of the clearest results: more than 40% of respondents preferred students ride only with peers in their grade band rather than mixing elementary, middle and high school riders on the same buses. Staff explained that returning to a two-tier or hybrid bus model to accommodate later…
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