Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Most Jacksonville high schools will add about a half hour to their school day when the new school year starts in August.
In addition, the district will rearrange how classes are scheduled throughout the day in an effort to give teachers more planning time.
The school day will start five minutes earlier — at 7:10 a.m. — and end 20 minutes later, at 2:05 p.m. To create daily planning time for teachers, the district will stop using block scheduling, where students attend half their classes for longer periods every other day. Students will instead attend each class every day…