The Anchorage School District will start school an hour later every Monday beginning this fall to allow for a new hour of teacher professional development time.
A student finishes breakfast on Monday morning, October 31, 2022 at Nunaka Valley Elementary in Anchorage.
In a letter to families Wednesday, district officials wrote that Monday buses will pick students up an hour later, but that school days will still end on time.shift school start times by at least an hour She also said she thought that losing an hour of instruction each week would be hard on teachers, who are already pressed for time and tightly scheduled through the day.
School board president Margo Bellamy said the professional development time is meant to support student outcomes. Bellamy also said that when the district conducted town halls and surveys surrounding a shift in school start times earlier this year, they also incorporated the professional development time change in discussions, as well.
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