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# California late start law aims to make school less of a yawn
- URL: https://werd.io/california-late-start-law-aims-to-make-school-less-of/
- Published: 2022-07-01T21:43:06.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-01T21:43:06.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Beginning this fall high schools in the nation’s most populous state can’t start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can’t start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times. Similar proposals are before lawmakers in New Jersey and Massachusetts.” This is a big deal. I can’t believe they were making teenagers go to school before 8am.

\[[Link](https://apnews.com/article/science-health-education-california-5197d3c602b0497d60c15d0bae20ad94)\]