In 1999, North Carolina created a report summarizing razing issues related to the feasibility and advisability of delaying the start of the school day in order to provide students with constructive projects and tasks during the late afternoon hours of the school week.

In August 2015, The Durham County Public Schools Board of Education voted to change high school start times to 9:00 a.m.

•  Report on Dealying the Start of the School Day, 1999 (pdf)
•  DPS Board plans to vote on changing school start times, 2015
•  Durham school board votes to push high school start times back, 2015