Start state secondary schools later in the morning for better student health

Mandates to local school districts from on high — whether that’s Sacramento or Washington, D.C. — don’t always work out for the best for students and parents.
They can backfire — see No Child Left Behind standards from the George W. Bush era — or inspire some extremely creative accounting on the part of districts in order to reach those goals.
That is currently the case in the efforts of school districts to increase their high school graduation rate under goal