Start School Later Ridgewood, NJ

10/16/2024

We've extended our Matching Gift deadline to 10/17/24, so there is still time to give if you haven't done so. But hurry! Any gift amount counts and we have the opportunity to match up to $4,000 with every gift we get!

By Start School Later

03/10/2024

Get ready!!

02/06/2024

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Have you experienced or witnessed the benefits of later school start times? Are you an advocate for healthy school hours? If so, we invite you to share a testimonial with our Task Force on Adolescent Sleep and School Start Times. Personal accounts shared by students, parents, school staff, medical professionals, and others will be compiled for the purpose of advocating for healthy school hours as outlined in Bill A3116/S2012 (Requires certain public schools that receive State aid to begin regular instruction for high school students no earlier than 8:30 AM). Learn more and share your testimonial today at: https://buff.ly/3UoB1cI

02/06/2024

YES!!

From a presentation at the National School Board Association Equity Symposium in Washington, DC, January 27, 2024.

08/02/2023

Ridgewood getting national attention 💪💪💪

Many Syracuse city schools are starting 25-minutes earlier next year—a 7:25 a.m. first bell for all high schoolers and many middle schoolers.It's a decision tha

08/02/2023

They've got years of adulthood ahead of them. Let's get our kids off to a healthy start.

04/19/2023

Time to check this out

Those Nerdy Girls talk about school start times: https://thosenerdygirls.org/school-start-times/

04/03/2023

Let’s go Florida!

If signed into law, changes would have to go into effect by July 2026.

03/08/2023

Excited for all of my teenage patients from Hillsborough NJ. Join Ridgewood next year in later start! And let’s get all of NJ to make the change 👏🏼👏🏼

A pediatric doctor will be speaking at an upcoming Board of Education meeting in April about later school start times.

02/26/2023

Looking forward to 2023-24

The Ridgewood School board has approved to support a later school start time for Ridgewood High School Monday evening, following last weeks special meeting and

02/26/2023

Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, has changed its start time to 35 minutes later after the board of education there voted "yes" to a "later start resolution" on Feb. 13, 2023.

02/21/2023

Real world experiences showing how later start improved the lives of teens. Looking forward to Ridgewood students reaping the benefits.

Despite public skepticism about changing school start times, evidence from schools that have made the plunge seems clear: It leads to better-rested, more motivated students.