Updated Tuesday at 11:17 a.m.
Beginning next school year, Wichita schools will start and end 10 minutes earlier.
The Board of Education voted 4-0 Monday to approve the change.
Classes that normally begin at 7 a.m. will now start at 6:50 and let out at 2:30 in the afternoon. The first morning buses will now begin running at 5:55 a.m.
Outgoing Superintendent John Allison said the board recognized the impact the changes will have on schools that start at 7. He said the changes will offset some of the issues with afternoon traffic that were brought up in a recent survey of students, faculty and staff.
The time change will not affect the school calendar. The board shortened the school calendar and lengthened the school day last year as a way to help trim $3 million from the district's budget -- a move necessary to handle rising operational costs and a lack of new funding from the state.
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