{"id":2981,"date":"2016-10-13T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T19:26:39","slug":"news-release-meeting-dates-school-start-end-time-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/10\/13\/news-release-meeting-dates-school-start-end-time-options\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Meeting dates &#124; school start and end time options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\"><u>News Release<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2015\/10\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag-SMALL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2243\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2015\/10\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag-SMALL-150x150.png\" alt=\"KPBSD logo 4c no tag SMALL\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/u><\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Southern peninsula school start and end time options<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Soldotna, October 12, 2016\u2014Changes to school start and end times will begin in August, 2017, and in order to inform and gather input, three southern peninsula community meetings will take place in November. The same content will be presented at each meeting. Parents, KPBSD staff, students, and community members are invited and encouraged to attend a community meeting of their choosing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 6:00 PM, Ninilchik School<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 6:00 PM, Homer High School<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Thursday, November 10, 6:00 PM, Chapman School, Anchor Point<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following community meetings and feedback from community members, on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, school principals met with district administration and staff to develop three options for new school start and end times in the southern peninsula. The preferred option from all school administrators is \u201cX\u201d. However, two additional options were also developed. Option \u201cY\u201d adds ten minutes to start and end times, and option \u201cZ\u201d is most problematic, swaps the start times, and tiers schools without like needs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2016\/10\/KPBSD-so-pen-school-start-and-end-time-options.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2982\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2016\/10\/KPBSD-so-pen-school-start-and-end-time-options.png\" alt=\"kpbsd-so-pen-school-start-and-end-time-options\" width=\"850\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Next steps:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The transportation department analyzed X, Y, and Z options, and transportation routes for X and Y are viable.<\/li>\n<li>School administrators will share the three options with site councils, and gather input.<\/li>\n<li>November community meetings will be an excellent time for a shared conversation and discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Principals will evaluate input and make final recommendations to district administration.<\/li>\n<li>KPBSD transportation will make certain bus transportation for the chosen option is viable.<\/li>\n<li>The district anticipates completion and a final decision before winter break so that parents and communities can begin to plan for the changes that will start in August, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Parents, staff, and community members are encouraged to attend a community meeting in November.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>To offer suggestions, questions, or thoughts, please use this online public comment link: <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/SouthernPeninsulaSchoolTimes\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/SouthernPeninsulaSchoolTimes<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nKenai Peninsula Borough School District<br \/>\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2016\/10\/Southern-Peninsula-School-Start-and-End-Time-OPTIONS-October-2016.pdf\">PDF Flyer: start and end time options<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Release Southern peninsula school start and end time options Soldotna, October 12, 2016\u2014Changes to school start and end times will begin in August, 2017, and in order to inform &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/10\/13\/news-release-meeting-dates-school-start-end-time-options\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News Release: Meeting dates &#124; school start and end time options&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[217,406,499,500,502,611,667,736,762,1109],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-chapman-school","tag-fireweed-charter-school","tag-homer-flex-school","tag-homer-high-school","tag-homer-middle-school","tag-kpbsd","tag-mcneil-canyon-elementary","tag-ninilchik-school","tag-paul-banks-elementary","tag-west-homer-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}