LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Greater than 48,000 mother and father, college students, employees, and group members responded to a survey on a proposal to vary faculty begin occasions, with most saying getting further sleep was the first profit.
In keeping with the findings, which can be introduced and mentioned at a CCSD Board of Trustees assembly on November 13, 48,038 folks took the survey after the district requested for suggestions on a proposal to shift faculty begin occasions half-hour later for the 2026/2027 faculty yr.
Among the many complete responses, practically 78% of scholars, 60% of oldsters, and 53% of CCSD employees favored extra sleep.
Below the proposal, elementary faculty begin occasions would shift to 9:30 a.m., center faculty begin occasions to eight:30 a.m., and highschool begin occasions to 7:30 a.m., and wouldn’t value the district extra cash.
Almost half of these surveyed expressed concern about conflicts with dad or mum/guardian schedules, together with extra bills for after-school care, in addition to time constraints for after-school actions, golf equipment, sports activities, and homework.
The survey discovered vital group curiosity in exploring even later begin occasions. The district carried out a research of 5 completely different start-time choices. Nevertheless, 4 of the choices would value between $13 million and $16 million so as to add new faculty buses to accommodate the completely different begin occasions, and would incur annual bills of $1.6 million to $2.1 million for ongoing bus gas and upkeep.
The survey was carried out from Friday, Sept. 26, by way of Friday, Oct. 17. The vast majority of responses got here from 26,137 mother and father and guardians, 16,329 employees members, 8,739 college students, and 1,301 group members.
