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Welcome to Start School Later Maryland!
Our Goal: Safe and healthy school start times for all public school students in Maryland
On October 18 and 19, 2024, Loyola University Maryland hosted the National Conference on Adolescent Sleep and School Start Times!
Governor Wes Moore and Superintendent Carey Wright provided recorded opening remarks.
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Maryland is home to the headquarters of Start School Later, Inc. The state has five chapters that are working in their local communities and together.
- Anne Arundel County - implemented new school hours in 2022-2023 school year
- Baltimore City
- Baltimore County
- Howard County - implemented new school hours in 2023-2024 school year
- Montgomery County- in 2015-2016 school year, delayed high school 20 minutes and other schools 10 minutes
Victories!
Maryland School Start Times News
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House Bill 1418 Testimony
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- April 7, 2018: A guest blog is published via Salisbury weatherman Dan Satterfield's page hosted on the American Geophysical Union (AGU), "Beyond Daylight Savings Time."
- February 14 and 28, 2018: The Frederick County Citizens Advisory Council recommended altering school bell schedules. The report is here. At the following meeting, the Board of Education approved a motion asking their Transportation Department to provide options meeting their parameters "7:30 am. is the earliest start time parameter, high school students go to school last and they go to school between 9:00-9:15 am. "
- January 17, 2018: The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services recommends later start/end times to the House Judiciary Committee as a way to counter the spike in teen crime between 3 and 7 p.m.
- November 30, 2017: Frederick County Public Schools is considering a pilot program for the Walkerville feeder systems with later start times.
- November 2017: The Enterprise in St Mary's County discusses school start times, followed by an article about evening high school expansion on November 10th (For non-subscribers, read the article here.) In response, a letter to the editor by SSL MD is published on November 29th. (For non-subscribes read the letter here)
- October 2017: SSL MD testifies before the Maryland Board of Education (October 24th) and Kirwan Commission (October 25th, speaker #10).
- August 2, 2017: SSL's letter to the editor of the Star Democrat was published in response to a July 26, 20017 article in the Star Democrat . The letter and article focus on the National PTA resolution on school start. For non-subscribers, read the article here.
- July 26, 2017: SSL MD testifies before the Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence, aka the Kirwan Commission.
- Spring 2017: Frederick County's Linking Youth to New eXperiences (LYNX) program at Frederick High School, which will allow for flexible schedules is funded by the Maryland General Assembly. See a list of related news articles here.
- April 27-28, 2017: SSL MD attended the Adolescent Sleep, Health, and Start Time Conference in Washington, DC.
- April 25, 2017: SSL MD testified before the Maryland Board of Education.
- April 12, 2017: SSL MD attended the presentation of the interim report on start times by the Frederick County Citizens Advisory Council to the Frederick Board of Education.
- March 7, 2017: The Dorchester Star writes about the upcoming Adolescent Sleep, Health, and Start Time Conference conference and interviews representatives from Caroline and Talbot Counties.
- March 5, 2017: SSL MD wrote to all Board of Education Members and Superintendents about the Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours.
- March 5, 2017: SSL wrote a letter to Comptroller Franchot about the economic impact of later start times. Here was the Comptroller Office's response, suggestion it was a local issue.
- January 15 and March 1, 2017: SSL MD invited all Board of Education members and Superintendents across the state, MD PTA, MABE, and PSSAM to attend Adolescent Sleep, Health, and Start Time Conference to be held in April in Washington DC.
- December 12, 2016: SSL MD wrote a letter to the Baltimore City Health Commissioner.
- December 5, 2016: SSL MD testified before the state Board of Education.
- October 17, 2016: SSL MD wrote a letter to Governor Larry Hogan comparing his executive order on post-Labor Day starts to the need for healthy and safe school hours.
- October 4, 2016: Baltimore Sun published our Letter to the Editor on chronic absenteeism.
- August 2016: Psychiatric News discussed Start School Later and Maryland's Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours
- May 25, 2016: The Calvert Recorder published our Letter to the Editor in response to their Orange Ribbon article.
- May 11, 2016: The City of Crisfield website reported on the Orange Ribbon Bill.
- May 4, 2016: The Calvert Recorder wrote about the Orange Ribbon Bill and Calvert County's eligibility. The article was adapted/published May 12th to apply to all southern Maryland counties.
- May 2, 2016: The Huffington Post discussed the Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours.
- April 26, 2016: SSL appeared on WYPR's (Baltimore's NPR affiliate) Midday program "Should Schools Push the Snooze Button"
- March 29, 2016: Education Week and the K-12 Contrarian discussed the Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours.
- February 17, 2016 The Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours was discussed on the Voxitatis Research Foundation blog.
- June 19, 2015: Southern MD News publishes a letter to the editor regarding school start times in Calvert County.
- August 11, 2015: The Baltimore Sun reports that Harford County updates its bus routing software.
- April 4, 2014: The Washington Post reported on the Maryland Legislature passing a bill that requires the Maryland Department of Heath and Mental Hygiene and Maryland State Department of Education to study school start times.
- March 10, 2013: Baltimore Sun reports on a bill to study school hours. The article includes reference to bell times in Anne Arundel, Carroll, Howard, and Montgomery Counties. The legislation passed the house as reported by the Capital Gazette on March 27th.
- January 17, 2013: Frederick County tasked a committee to research school start times, according to a Southern MD News article.
- October 4, 2011: The Calvert Recorder discussed teen sleep and school start times.
- September 23, 2011: The Carroll County Public Schools moves high school start times 5-10 minutes earlier to 7:30 to save transportation money for the 2012-2013 school year.
- August 22, 2011: A Letter to the Editor of the Calvert Recorder makes the case for later middle and high school start times.
- November 24, 2003: Frederick County Board of Education discusses Bus Schedule options (Agenda Item 2.02). A Report and Summary of Costs were provided, for scenarios where high school starts at 7:30, 8:00, or 9:00.