25% of Start-School-Later Petitioners from B-CC Area
Do you think that high school start times should be pushed back by one hour?
The movement to push back public high school start times in Montgomery County has strong support in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area, according to a study analyzing the Start School Later Montgomery County petition. Of the 10,223 (as of Jan. 5) signers to a petition to start public high schools in Montgomery County one hour later, 25 percent—more than 2,500 signers—were from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area, according to findings published this week by the Lloyd Society, a nonprofit research center. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School enrolls just over 1,800 students, according to the school's online profile. That's almost three petition signatures for every two Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School students. Not all signers were students or family …
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Joe Thomas
9:03 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Parents lock up the Iphones at 7pm and there will be plenty of time for study and homework. more ›