The average teenager’s dream of school starting later in the day may come true. State Rep. Jill Cooper, R-Export and a member of the House Education Commit
When Hansika Daggolu s junior year of high school starts in the fall, she ll be watching to see if a later first bell under a new California law means fewer classmates are heads-down on their desks for afternoon naps.
Beginning this fall high schools in the nation’s most populous state can’t start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can’t start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times.