Parent hopes Polk County will challenge state law set to change school start times

As Polk County Public Schools brainstormed a way to shift school start times, Norma Tutt didn’t like what she heard. “I just don’t like it,” she said. “It’s a downward spiral. That is my opinion. I just think it’s going to be a downward spiral for the whole thing.” The Davenport mom of two students thinks there isn’t a way the district can change school start times without spending millions of dollars more on new buses and drivers, spiking the demand for daycare, and causing upheaval for families like hers.