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This bill — the ZZZ’s to A’s Act — would direct the Secretary of Education to conduct a study to determine the relationship between school start times and adolescent health, well-being, and performance. The study would be conducted either directly by the Secretary of Education or through the award of a grant or contract, and Congress would receive the study’s findings along with any recommendations contained in the report.

Specifically, the study would:

Provide a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence relating to school start times and adolescent health, well-being, and performance;
Compare adolescent health, well-being, and performance among local educational agencies with different school start times; and
Evaluate factors that contribute to or affect school start times.

Currently, the Secretary of Education has not promulgated any rules on school start times. Thus, individual school districts and schools set their own start times.

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