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Board debates bus-stacking, CTEC start times and student sleep in bell-schedule review
Summary
Trustees discussed the proposed 2026–27 bell schedule and its tradeoffs: administrators defended route stacking to preserve efficiency while trustees raised sleep and equity concerns about earlier secondary starts and mismatched CTEC start times that limit cross-campus access.
At a March board meeting, district administrators walked trustees through the proposed bell schedule for 2026–27 and the transportation trade-offs that drive many start times.
"We like what we call 'bell stack' our routes—the most efficient is a driver doing a high school, then a middle, then an elementary run," Leon Wilcox said, explaining why many start times remain…
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