Plan: The federal government will provide local school districts with incentives to change the starting time of the secondary schools to a time that fits with adolescents’ biological need to sleep. Harms: SLEEP DEPRIVATION LOWERS THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS. A. The vast majority of adolescents suffer from sleep deprivation. Mart Carkadon (Prof., Psychiatry, Brown U. Med. Center Jan. 99, 352 “The problem of inadequate sleep affects more segments of our society than adolescents; however, adolescents …showed first 75 words of 887 total…

…showed last 75 words of 887 total…asleep at school during the past year. C. Attendance is boosted with later starting times AASA- School Administration For Whom the School Bell Tolls March ’99 American Association for School Administrators "We're seeing our attendance is up and our tardiness is down, so we have more kids coming to school every day and more kids coming to school on time." And, perhaps even more importantly, "The kids are more alert," he says. "They're ready to learn."