4 Good snooze for students.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

New Jersey lawmakers sent Governor Chris Christie a bill requiring a study of the benefits of later start times in middle and high schools. The legislation, which Christie signed this summer, comes amid growing concern from health officials that teens aren't getting enough sleep. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report linked lack of sleep to health risks--being overweight, drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, using drugs--as well as failing classes. And the American Academy of Pediatrics last year reported that later school start times are more in line with teens' biological sleep patterns...