{"id":1040,"date":"2018-03-30T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:30:31","slug":"update-on-anchorage-school-districts-look-at-school-start-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/update-on-anchorage-school-districts-look-at-school-start-times\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ON ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S LOOK AT SCHOOL START TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"

High School student Matthew Park started a petition to ASD in July 2017 to push high school start times to 8:30. https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/anchorage-school-district-push-start-times-in-asd-high-schools-to-8-30-am<\/a><\/p>\n

In August of 2017 the Superintendent (Dr. Deena Bishop) and the Board President (Tam Agosti-Gisler) indicated that they wanted to look at changing school start times.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/education\/2017\/08\/09\/should-the-anchorage-school-district-change-its-school-start-times\/<\/a><\/p>\n

By November the Superintendent had used her discretionary budget to hire Western Demographics to look at the issue in what some have called an “efficiency study”.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.ktva.com\/story\/36909860\/local-teens-welcome-new-school-start-times<\/a><\/p>\n

Since then the Superintendent has published a web page on school start times on the ASD website. The Page never identified who actually authored the content. https:\/\/www.asdk12.org\/Page\/10284<\/a>\u00a0 The web page originally contained names and dates of authors whose work purportedly supported the claims made in the document, but no bibliography was ever included. When complaints were made about ASD needing to provide a full bibliography, the material identifying dates and authors was deleted. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/AkEducators\/permalink\/10156543167479267\/\u00a0<\/a> A\u00a0 bibliography that included all but one of the sources apparently mentioned by ASD (one did not appear to exist) as well as quite a bit of additional literature addressing questions raised by AEA members was prepared and shared with ASD (see https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/groups\/2153649\/school_start_times<\/a>. ASD has never shared that bibliography.<\/p>\n

Shannon Bingham, President of Western Demographics, presented to AEA building representations on March 28th. Mr. Bingham apologized for not having published his presentation online, and for not having a bibliography available. AEA Representatives presented quite a few unanswered questions, including the impact on Elementary students, and interventions that ameliorate the sleep disorders relied upon by much of the research to suggest changes in start times (see Alaska Educators Facebook Group https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/AkEducators\/permalink\/10156543167479267\/ <\/a>). ASD still has not published any additional material from Mr. Bingham.<\/p>\n

The material presented by Mr. Bingham was somewhat inconsistent with the material presented on the ASD web page, apparently as a result of ongoing examination of the question by Western Demographics, but as noted, the most current material has not been published to the ASD website.<\/p>\n

A short bulleted version of this is available at http:\/\/bit.ly\/ASDBULLETS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bill

Anchorage skyline and pan ice at Point Woronzof on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Bill Roth \/ Alaska Dispatch News)<\/p><\/div>\n

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High School student Matthew Park started a petition to ASD in July 2017 to push high school start times to 8:30. https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/anchorage-school-district-push-start-times-in-asd-high-schools-to-8-30-am In August of 2017 the Superintendent (Dr. Deena Bishop) and the Board President (Tam Agosti-Gisler) indicated that they wanted to look at changing school start times.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/education\/2017\/08\/09\/should-the-anchorage-school-district-change-its-school-start-times\/ By November the Superintendent had used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-education","category-marc-grober","category-social-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}