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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2013: Sandy Evans' Goals for Fairfax Schools

Fairfax County School Board member shares priorities, vision for the new year.

As 2013 approaches, Patch has asked Fairfax County School Board members to share their goals and priorities for 2013. Board member Sandy Evans (Mason) shares her top five points below. They run unedited. The upcoming year will be a particularly busy one on the School Board, from our Superintendent search to another difficult budget to some far-reaching instructional issues. Here’s what I see at the Top 5 Priorities for 2013, plus a note about a Vision for the Future: Overall, the Board will have an opportunity to create a new Vision for the Future. With a new Board having come in in 2012 and a new Superintendent in 2013, this will provide a good time for us to reassess where we are as a school system and where we need to be going in the …

Friday, March 9, 2012

PatchChat Live: A Later School Start Time

At noon Friday, join School Board Member Sandy Evans and Phyllis Payne, founders of SLEEP, to talk about sleep and rethinking school day structure

Teens need about nine hours of sleep per night for good health, focus, energy and academic performance — but on average, middle and high school students in Fairfax County are getting seven hours a sleep of night or less. The results of the county's recent Youth Risk Survey indicate to founders and members of the advocacy group Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal (SLEEP) that while they've made progress in teaching parents and students about the importance of the issue, a sleep deficit still exists for many students, they said. "Different children have different needs, but all children need sleep," wrote Phyllis Payne, who started SLEEP along with Evans in 2004, in an email to school board members last month. At noon Friday, …

Aalliiee Marie

8:48 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012

I'm a sophomore. My bus comes at 6:40, a full 40 minutes before the South Lakes start time, so I have to be up by 6:10 every day. I'm in IB classes, so I spend anywhere from 1-6 hours per night on homework; additionally, I'm a basketball manager, which means that game days, I don't get home until 9 or 9:30pm. Combined with my insomnia, I'm often lucky to get 5 hours of sleep per night--definitely…   more ›

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