{"id":34707,"date":"2017-04-27T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=34707"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:21:12","slug":"ucf-to-shift-school-start-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=34707","title":{"rendered":"UCF to shift school start times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AlarmClock2C1411_M_150_C_R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AlarmClock2C1411_M_150_C_R-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education voted Monday night to approve a change in school start times, delaying the start of the school day by 25 minutes, beginning with the 2017-18 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after years of study of the impact on sleep on teenagers \u2014 the changes were drive by a desire to allow teens to get more sleep, officials said. The new high school\/middle school school day will start at 8 a.m., instead of the current 7:35. The school day will end at 2:43 p.m. For elementary students, school will start at 9:10 a.m. and end at 3:40 p.m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear what the impact will be on scholastic sports, working parents and high school students with after school jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education voted Monday night to approve a change in school start times, delaying the start of the school day by 25 minutes, beginning with the 2017-18 school year. The move comes after years of study of the impact on sleep on teenagers \u2014 the changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7426,1286],"class_list":["post-34707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-unionville-chadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34708,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707\/revisions\/34708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}