Documents
TTF Final Majority and Minority Reports
Presented to the School Board March 10, 2008
Majority Report
- Final Report
- Appendix A - Task Force Charter
- Appendix B - Membership
- Appendix C - Schedule of Task Force Meetings
- Appendix D - Attendance - Summary
- Appendix E - Facts About Sleep and Adolescents
- Appendix F - Bell Schedule/Parameter Committee Memberships: Flip, Slide, Tweak
- Appendix G - Definitions - Flip, Slide, Tweak, Hybrid
- Appendix H - Slide Committee Report
- Appendix I - Flip Committee Report
- Appendix J - Tweak Committee Report
- Appendix K - Bell Schedule Options
- Appendix L - Service Parameter Recommendations
- Appendix M - Impact Committee Memberships: Community, Employee, Student
- Appendix N - Community Impact Committee (CIC) Report
- Appendix O - Employee Impact Committee (EIC) Report
- Appendix P - Student Impact Committee (SIC) Report
- Appendix Q - Non-Parameter Service Recommendations
- Appendix R - Final Recommended Bell Schedule - Recorded Votes
- Appendix S - Membership Survey on Service Parameters
- Appendix T - Middle School After-School Program Details
- Appendix U - Other Experiences with Later Start Times
Minority Report
Bell Schedule Options
Maps
MPS Reports
- MPS Reply to TTF Service Level Parameters list of 11/26/07
- Transportation Options & Phase II Bell Time Analysis, December 2006
- K12 Pupil Transportation Services Bell Time Analysis, January 2006 and Appendices
Prior Studies
- Executive Summary Agenda Item No. III, November 1998
- Report of the Task Force to Study High School Opening Times, June 1998
- Issues Paper on Reversing the Bell Schedules, February 1991
School Board Work Session on Transportation Service Parameters, February 2007
Staff Reports
- Elementary School Day Schedule
- FCPS High School Average Attendance
- Civil Twilight
- Programs and Other Services - Definitions
- MPS Study Follow-up (Board Docs)
- Options Definitions for the 2007 Transportation Task Force
- High School Start Times in Large Suburban Systems
- Transportation Re-Engineering
- Sports Participation Report, 2006-2007
- Sports Participation Report, 2005-2006
- Sports Participation Report, 2004-2005
- Sports Participation Report, 2003-2004
- Sports Participation Report, 2002-2003
Survey - November 2007
Transportation Data and Documents
- Middle School Population Scatterplots
- High & Secondary School Population Scatterplots
- Special Program Student Counts and Times
- Baseline Costs as Estimated March 2007
- Current Run State Office of Transportation Services, February 2007
- Actual Load Counts - October 2006
- Actual Load Counts - October 2006-By Length & School Level (Excel format) (updated 10/22/07)
- FTS-Shuttle Students, Times, Miles and Costs by Student (Board Docs)
- Transportation Costs for Administratively Placed Students (Board Docs)
- Baileys and Hunters Woods Magnet Routes (Board Docs)
- FCPS Out-of-Boundary Programs, By School, By Mandate, 2007-2008
- Cluster Bell Schedule and School Bus Requirements, September 2007 (Word format) (updated 10/11/07)
- A Short Primer on Transportation Bell Schedules
Transportation Fees
TTF Member Provided Documents and Links
Safe Routes to School
America Walks
Way to Go
- Longitudinal Study of Later High School Start Times (2002)
- Sleep Research in Navy Enlisted Training
- The Relationship Between Sleep Regiman & Performance in U.S. Navy Recruits
- Sleep Patterns in U.S. Navy Recruits
- Swim and Dive Schedule 2007-2008
- NASSP Start Times article
- Minneapolis School Start Time Study (Web Site)
- When Worlds Collide-Adolescent Need for Sleep Versus Societal Demands
- Starting Time & School Life-Reflections from Educators & Students
- The Prickly Politics of School Starting Times
- The Impact of School Starting Time on Family Life
- The Consequences of Insufficient Sleep for Adolescents
- On My Own Time: The Conflict Between Adolescent Sleep Needs & High School Start Times
- Association of Sleep & Academic Performance
- Clearinghouse on Early Education & Parenting (Web Site)
- National Federation of State High School Associations (Web Site)
- University of Minnesota Study of Later Start Times for High School Students (Web Site)
- Minneapolis Public Schools Start Time Study, August 2001 (Web Site)
- Fairfax County Community & Recreation Services, 2006 Community Users
- 2005 Fairfax County Youth Survey
- Mode to School for All Students
Courtesy of 2005 Fairfax County Household Transportation Survey Department of Systems Management for Human Services - National Sleep Foundation - 2006 Sleep in America Poll (Web Site)
- 2005 Case Studies from the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) (Web Site) Courtesy of SleepinFairfax.org
- Fact Sheet on Teen Sleep Needs & the Benefits of Later Start Times
- Fact Sheet on JEB Stuart Surveys
- Sleep on High School Sports and Jobs
- Extra Sleep Improves Athlete's Performance-ScienceDaily (Web Site)
- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
- Per-Pupil Transportation Expenditures by State
- Regulations Governing Pupil Transportation in Virginia (Web Site)
- League of Women Voters Start Time Study, May 2006 and April 2007 Study
- Districts Considering Changing School Start Times
- Arlington Public Schools Impact of 2001 Adjustments to High & Middle School Start Times, June 2005
Courtesy of Arlington Public Schools - Arlington Public Schools Report of the School Start Time Steering Committee, October 2000
Courtesy of Arlington Public Schools - Districts That Have Implemented Later Start Times for High Schools and Summary on Later High School Start Times