Change in works for middle schools' schedules

With new state science tests looming in two years, county school officials want to change middle school schedules so students can take the subject all year long.

A committee of parents, teachers and administrators will meet next month to hash out a new schedule for all 19 middle schools by the summer, just three years after the complex block schedule was adopted.

Catherine Gilbert, one of the two middle school directors for county schools, will lead the committee. It will make recommendations to the next superintendent, and a new schedule could be in place by August 2007.

"We need to take a look at science, because...