START LATER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION PROPOSAL (SLEEP)
If you are concerned that your middle school and high school children need to sleep later in the morning before starting school in order to perform better, you can help support this proposal.

Our Goal: To change Fairfax County Public School middle and high school start times to later in the morning. Research shows that later start times correspond with teen sleep needs and improve health, quality of life, and school performance.

The effort to change Fairfax County Public School start times by parents concerned about the health impact of too-early high school start times on adolescent students has been going on for at least 10 years. SLEEP was started in January 2004 by Sandy Evans and Phyllis Payne. Momentum appears to be building for a change. We need your continuing support to finally accomplish the goal of so many parents for so long. To learn more about the history of this issue in Fairfax, please visit the SLEEP website.