The UCFSD School Start Time Committee began it's work in the 2016-2017 school year. Their charge was to evaluate the impact to all stakeholders of opening schools later in the day. A student led initiative had laid the ground a year before. The Student Forum comprised of students throughout the county and supported by the CCIU was conducted in the 2015-2016 school year. The students found compelling evidence that supported a move to later start time and they presented their findings to their school district's.
The UCFSD Board took up the challenge and created a committee to evaluate the student findings. The committee was charged with validating the student findings and to consider opportunities and challenges to implementation. The committee was composed of a variety of stakeholders, representative of the UCFSD community. Finding clear evidence of the value of later start times and having identified the obstacles/issues the committee next began to work with transportation to develop options and simultaneously to work with stakeholders to address alternatives and solutions.
In the end the committee recommended a 25 minute later start time for secondary students and small modifications to the elementary schedule. This website documents the process involved in this initiative.